Expressionism

Expressionism is a way of making art in which the artist's own feeling matters more than a faithful likeness. Painters may use harsh, unnatural colour, bend the shapes of people and places, work with a loose hand, and lay the paint on thickly. The word can describe art of any period, but it first took hold among the modern artists who worked in Germany in the early twentieth century. Two groups there are best known: Die Brücke, which formed in 1905, and Der Blaue Reiter, which formed in Munich in 1911. In Korean art circles, almost any expressive tendency has tended to be called “Fauvist”, so the two labels often overlap. After the Second World War a more abstract strain grew up in the United States as abstract expressionism, and in the 1980s neo-expressionism brought the approach back to painting, answering the minimalism of the 1970s.

First check whether the colours match how things really look, then find where a body or a landscape has been stretched, twisted or flattened: what feeling does the distortion serve?

• Neo-Expressionism 신표현주의→In the 1980s neo-expressionism brought expressionist painting back, answering the minimalism of the decade before.
• Fauvism フォーヴィスム→Fauvism and Die Brücke both appeared in 1905, in France and Germany; the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture regards them, in the narrow sense of the term, as the first expressionist groups.