Expressionist Color Photography
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Mirando al Cielo 7 - Murmuration Japan Asiatic Landscape Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 7 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper.
This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
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2010s Expressionist Color Photography
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On The Way to Havasu
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"No Title" Still Searching For The Title Two, Giclee Print, Color Photography
By Hatice Besun
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Still Searching For The Title / No Title 2 / Photograph
Creator: Hatice Besun
Creation year: 2022
Dimension: 19 x 13
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2010s Expressionist Color Photography
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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
L’étoile, from the series Fantômes
By Diana Markosian
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L’étoile, from the series Fantômes, 2025. © Diana Markosian / Aperture
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Mirando al Cielo 6 - Murmuration Misty Country Landscape Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
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Mirando al Cielo 13 - Murmuration Countryside Landscape Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
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Mirando al Cielo 8 - Renaissance Landscape Swallows Murmuration Landscape
By Rosa Basurto
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Mirando al Cielo 11 - Birds Murmuration in Sky Mountain Region Japan Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
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Mirando al Cielo 11 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Mirando al Cielo 3 - Lone Walker Countryside Murmuration Landscape Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 3 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
Rosa Basurto is a self-taught...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Mirando al Cielo 15 - Murmuration Asiatic Countryside Landscape
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 15 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper.
This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Color, Digital, Photographic Paper, C Print
Windmill (Hamptons)
By James Mannix
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Bombay Star Series : A Third Star
By James Mannix
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Towards The Sea
By James Mannix
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Mirando al Cielo 12 - Birds Murmuration Sky Landscape Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 12 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Color, Digital, Photographic Paper, C Print
Mirando al Cielo 5 - Countryside Murmuration Misty Landscape Photograph
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 5 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Mirando al Cielo 2 - Misty Landscape Countryside Murmuration Photograph Print
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 2 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Mirando al Cielo 10 - Renaissance Style Landscape Photography Dreamscape Birds
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Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 10 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
In this landscape image, a b...
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2010s Expressionist Color Photography
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Mirando al Cielo 14 - Murmuration Starlings Swallows Poppy Field
By Rosa Basurto
Located in Brighton, GB
Mirando al Cielo 14 is a beautiful 30cm x 30cm Digital Print on 50cm x 50cm Cotton Paper. This is a Limited Edition of 9 + 2 Artist Proofs in this size.
A million birds wheel and bat around the sky above a field of red poppies. The poppies shoot into the sky like a field of trees.
In this composition Basurto plays with proportion and with perception of reality; are the flowers real...
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2010s Expressionist Color Photography
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Peonies, Campanulas, and Variegated Gladiolas
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
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This romantic pano looks as much like a watercolor as it does like a photo!
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Color Photography
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Abstract Church - Manipulated Photography
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1960s Expressionist Color Photography
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Old Las Vegas Dunes Hotel Neon
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Negative Color with colored gels creates a wonderfully fantasy of a classic urban park. The work was done in 1971 during the Psychedelic period. Signed , dated lower right, Edition ...
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