German Expressionist Painting Research

In the20th century, German expressionist painting is a treasure of the western artculture. Facing the traditional painting form and contemporary painting styles influence,expressionist artists chose compatible and separation, and in the process of looking for theirown personality charm, relying on the painting category in the form of emotion and humanmental world to explore. They represent a strong theme color emotion in the aestheticprocess.This essay mainly expounds and demonstrates the twentieth Century Germanexpressionist aesthetic emotion. We look at the painting affective changes from historicalevolution of expressionism at the first. The main several development stages are dividedinto Dresden, Munich, Berlin and Vienna. Compared with traditional realistic painting,these artists advocates emotional authenticity more. On the other hand, our analysis ofpainting within the context of real aesthetic emotions from the following several aspects,such as the painting itself within the context of the image features of color performance,Texture and modeling language.And then look for the basis of expressionist painting artform, the most important is the support and influence expressionism painting emotionesthetics thought and the German national character. At the last,through comparison withsimilar German expressionist paintings French Fauvism and Chinese freehand brushworkwhich all of them are pay attension to emotional expression to further clarify the Germanexpressionist paintings become an independent school of aesthetic emotional characteristics.