{"id":122,"date":"2016-02-23T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2017-02-17T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:07:18","slug":"expressionism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/expressionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expressionist art focuses on the expression of emotions rather than the accurate depiction of objects.\u00a0 Beginning in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, perhaps because photography was better than painting at showing things accurately, artists began to use color and visual distortions as a means of communicating emotional states.\u00a0 The first two paintings in this unit come from this school of art.\u00a0 The final painting is from the school of Abstract Expressionism, which was the major school of American Art in the 1950\u2019s and 1960\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>[Note:\u00a0 The painting by Mark Rothko in the Abstract Art Unit is another example of Abstract Expressionism.]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/expressionism-1\/\">Start:<strong>\u00a0Expressionism<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Exploration<\/strong> \u2192<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Select a piece from below to pick up where you left off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/expressionism-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-161 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Van-Gogh-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/expressionism-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-162 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/Munch-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/expressionism-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/de-Kooning-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2017\/01\/Philosophy-@-The-Virtual-Art-Museum-Expressionism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to get the printable version of this section.<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expressionist art focuses on the expression of emotions rather than the accurate depiction of objects.\u00a0 Beginning in the late 19th century, perhaps because photography was better than painting at showing things accurately, artists began to use color and visual distortions as a means of communicating emotional states.\u00a0 The first two paintings in this unit come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/philosophyatthemuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}