Researching the Art Movement of Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist art movement which initially begun in poetry and painting in Northern Europe, the art distorts the image of reality to express the feelings or views of the artists inner feelings or ideas.

This is Wheat field with Crows by Vincent Van Gogh, this painting uses long lines of paint and a oil paint pallet, this allows an expression of the natural image which is rather ominous as this is deemed as the last painting of Van Gogh before he took his own life (although "Tree Roots" was his actual last painting) 

The fact that the painting has sharper edges and an almost unrefined look makes it have more aggressive connotations and can also promote sorrow thanks to the blue sky. The crows, which are black, connote death and depression as darkness represents nothingness.

This image is my own expressionist piece, it depicts a forest and field using purples, pinks and reds which intend to connote feelings of love, happiness, calmness, prosperity and happiness.

This image links to A view of 'Het Rietdiep' as it uses nature and colours to depict feelings.

Effects have been used on my own picture to give it a feeling of a painting rather than an image, this includes a slight gaussian blur, some crosshatch stylising and colour replacement, these were applied in photoshop.