Cubism

       Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. It is known as the most influential art movement of the 20th century.

Braque and Picasso compared themselves to the Wright Brothers, because they were always together.

For me, Picasso makes a huge impact in art's history because well, he is one of the top-five painter known worldwide, and I really like some of his paintings as we can see next:

Les Damoiselles d'Avignon

Mandolin and Guitar

Three Musicians

Houses on the Hill

Woyzeck/Wozzeck

    In my opinion, Georg Buchner's expressionist play Woyzeck is very tragic. I think that everything that happens in the play is the outcome of what he goes through, for example, his wife cheating on him, his poverty, the criticism he gets from other people, and so on. I also believe that he might had some hallucinations that had to do with what happens in the play.

On the other hand, I didn’t like very much Wozzeck’s opera, because I find it quite boring, but I’m positive it is a very expressionistic piece of music, and I’m sure If I didn’t find opera boring I’d definitely like Wozzeck’s work.

Expressionism

         “ Expressionism refers to art that puts a premium on expressing emotions. Artists communicate emotion by distorting color or shape or surface or space in a highly personal way.” (Robert Atkins, Artspoke).

It is an artistic and literary movement of the early 20^th Century, particularly in Germany.

Expressionist Woodcuts

Expressionists used black and white woodcuts to create a genre of wordless novels told entirely through images. This really helped for the creation of what we nowadays call graphic novels.

One of the most famous artists was Frans Masereel. I really like some of his works because I find it very interesting how they managed to create a scene with just black and white and by drawing very simple things.

Frans Masereel- Rooftops

Frans Masereel- Workers