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"Expressionism" denotes a personal view of things rather than objective, Therefore expressionism is called upon to materialize inner emotions, images, ideas... unlike the predecessor Impressionism which demanded from the artist to render external stimuli (light mainly, figures etc). Under this view expressionism had the right -and made use of this - to twist, to misinterpret and diffract the image since this is not part of a - by convention- objective environment but of the artist's soul, which -as was declared by the relatively new then science, psychoanalysis- bore an undefined , dark and subconcious aspect, responsible for psychosomatic malfunctions, dreams and nightmares. We could say that expressionism affected all kinds of Art, painting, literature, music, architecture (Bauhaus) and also cinema... mainly cinema... And let's keep in mind the place and time all this was happening: Germany defeated right after the WWI and the Weimar government trying to harness the explosive inflation and unemployment. The films that marked and defined the expressionist cinema were: "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang, "Nosferatu" by Murnau, "The workshop of doctor Kaligari" by
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