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May 26, 2006
Expressionism is what we deploy to understand art --as in science reflects, photographs picture, art expresses.
The Scream" (1893) by Edvard Munch.
That crudeness needs to be modified since expressionism has taken a bit of a bashing recently because it presupposes an uncritical subjectivism. Expressionism recalls the self-governing individual whose inner life can be conyveyed, or communicated to, a public composed of similar sovereign individuals.
It is part of the critique of the referential nature of language with expressionism presupposing a content that assumed to have an objective existence prior to the form of its expression. Content is the beginning and end of communicative expression.
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