In this topic I would like to introduce to you the Expressionism art.
The artist that i want to introduce is one of the most famous artist Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh.

"VINCENT VAN GOGH 1853 - 1890 Expressive luminosity of color and blotchy brushwork are Vincent van Gogh's distinguishing characteristics which made him the model of expressionist painters at the turn of the century. Born in 1853, the vicar's son originally planned to study theology. Professional and personal failure led him to painting, in which he saw a way of giving expression to mental adn emotional tension. His own painting style was primarily developed autodidactically. In 1888, he settled in Arles, and this stay in Provence, which only lasted a year, is seen as the zenith of his creative work. In 1890, he died from the consequences of a suicide attempt. Van Gogh's pictures, which were not saleable during his lifetime, are today auctioned at very high prices."

There are some his painting:

"Irises" [1889] by Vincent van Gogh.

La Mousmé

Still Life with a Bottle and Lemons on a Plate

Starry Night over the Rhone

To help understand more the Expressionism, I would like to provide some information that i research.

" Expressionism developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Expressionis was opposed to academic standards that had prevailed in Europe and emphasized artist's subjective emotion, which overrides fidelity to the actual appearance of things. The subjects of expressionist works were frequently distorted, or otherwise altered. Landmarks of this movement were violent colors and exaggerated lines that helped contain intense emotional expression. Application of formal elements is vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic. Expressionist were trying to pinpoint the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality but the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in them. The expressionistic tradition was significantly, rose to the emergence with a series of paintings of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh from the last year and a half of his life. There was recorded his heightened emotional state. One of the earliest and most famous examples of Expressionism is Gogh's "The Starry Night." Whatever was cause, it cannot be denied that a great many artists of this period assumed that the chief function of art was to express their intense feelings to the world. The Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor was such an artist - with his sense of isolation. The Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch dealt - with different fears. The Vienesse painters Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele first started with their expressionistic styles within Klimt's circle of the Vienna Secession. Vienesse Expressionism later gained significance between years 1905 and 1918 during a politically and culturally turbulent era of revelation of the profoundly problematic conditions of the turn-of-the-century Europe. In the years just around 1910 the expressionistic approach pioneered by Ensor, Munch, and van Gogh, in particular, was developed in the work of three artists' groups: the Fauves, Die Brucke, Der Blaue Reiter. "

It is not easy to understand the subjective emotions that the artist shows on his painting. Because it is more abstraction so it create more attractive to viewers. Now, we live in the postmodern age, where abstraction is the key of art. That's why we understand the value of abstraction. But majority of people at his age did not understand that. It is the one of reason "he often suffered from extreme poverty".
I hope that one day; I can understand some meaning in his ways of using colors. Wish you guys also have same feeling. If you understand his style art, I am happy to listen to.
links
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/expressionism.htm

www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/