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A style of painting, sculpture, and
literature that expresses inner emotions; in
particular, a movement in early 20th-century
art in northern and central Europe.
Expressionists tended to distort or
exaggerate natural appearance in order to
create a reflection of an inner world; the
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's Skriket/The
Scream 1893 (National Gallery, Oslo) is
perhaps the most celebrated example.
Expressionist writers include August
Strindberg and Frank Wedekind. Other leading
Expressionist artists were James Ensor, Oskar
Kokoschka, and Chaim Soutine. The Blaue
Reiter group was associated with this
movement, and the Expressionist trend in
German art emerged even more strongly after
World War I in the work of Max Beckmann and
Georg Grosz.