Formation Of Visual Expression In German Expressionist Paintings

German expressionist painting is an expression of spiritual tradition of Europeanclassical drawings that lasts as long as several centuries and a most powerful and perfect formof spirit art. German expressionist painting peels off ruthlessly life's surface meaning andmaximally reaches the crude nature of the reality. As for its ways of expression, Germanexpressionist painting usually make most of the unique obscure painting elements to revealtheir inner conflicts and seek to express the relation among man and nature with the mostexpressive means. Moreover, the painting elements at the same time embody solemn andlogical German way of thinking, trying to express their pure inner spirit by way of describingthe objective world and reveal the true nature of art. The exploration to the function of color,lines and two-dimensioned space awakens people's sense of the beauty of life itself. The usualdirect feeling of the outer form of nature becomes the exploration to the pure artistic form andvisual space ---transcendentalist visual structure. In the artistic development in the twentiethcentury, German expressionist painting is representative of a new trend that is different fromformalist genre.