INTRODUCTION

The Expressionism movement is an impressive modern art movement that depicted subjective emotion rather than objective reality. This movement used distortion, exaggeration and different elements to express the artist’s feelings that made it different from any other movement (Expressionism, 2016). It has a unique sense of artistic style that uses intense colors and agitated brushstrokes with high qualities that not only affected fine art but also theatre, literature and many more (Expressionism, 2016). The techniques they used conveyed the state of emotion of the artist that expressed the anxieties of the modern world (The art story foundation, 2016). They were known for opposing the traditional techniques of art (Waddleton, 2016). The Expressionism movement began in the 19th century to early 20th century in Germany and Paris (Collins, n.d). German Expressionists who were part of separate groups such as Die Bruke, Der Blaue Raiter and Die Neue Sachlickeit developed the Expressionism movement (Collins, n.d). The Die Bruke group combined traditional German art, post-impressionists and Fauvist styles (Collins, n.d). While Der Blaue Raiter included many avant-garde artists such as Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Lastly, the Die Neue Sachlickeit group explored realism and its new forms (Collins, n.d). It was mainly developed as a reaction to the style of impressionism (Collins, n.d). For instance, Impressionist artists would reproduce nature while expressionists