On The Arts Forms Of German Expressionism

Expressionism is a main stream of the modernism painting and its major origin is from Germany. This is decided by social reality and local factor in Germany, reflecting sensitive intellectuals'psychic fear and solitude at that moment during the process of the social abnormal development. Germany expressionism pays attention to the expression of personality and intense emotion, being opposed to objective mimicry and trying hard to break traditional ties in terms of contents. It emphasizes on simple abstraction and harmonious sentiments with strong symbol meanings and sarcastic compositions in respect of styles.This text expresses the arts forms of German expressionism from four angles with view to analyzing and thinking of its formation. In part one, we discuss the pioneers of German expressionism, the art tendencies and propositions of different schools in German expressionism in order to clarify the formation and development of doctrines and arts ideas of expressionism. In part two, the diversification of the arts forms of expressionism is elaborated and the key roles of the subjective factor, emotion factor, the symbol factor and abstract factor in the arts forms of expressionism are discussed. In part three, the characteristics of arts forms of expressionism are described, taking further steps to explain the eminence of personality, the style of exaggeration and the arts disciplines of harmony and sentimentalism. The fourth part goes into detail of the causes of Germany expressionism, and deeply explores the historical, regional, theoretical and practical backgrounds, which contribute to the formation of the arts forms of German Expressionism. In addition, the influence of the innovative arts styles and diversified cultures on artist's individuality is also discussed.