Expressionism is an artistic style. in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. In a broader【C1】______, Expressionism is one of the main【C2】______of art in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. Its【C3】______subjective, personal self-expression is typical【C4】______a wide range of modern artists and art movements. More【C5】______Expressionism as a【C6】______style. or movement refers to a number of German artists, as well as Austrian, French, and Russian ones, who became active in the years before World War I and remained so throughout【C7】______of the War period. The roots of the German Expressionist school【C8】______the works of Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, each of【C9】______in the period 1885-1900【C10】______a highly personal painting style. These artists used the expressive possibilities of color and line to【C11】______dramatic and emotion themes, to convey the qualities of fear, horror, etc. They【C12】______from the literal representation of nature in order to express more subjective outlooks or【C13】______of mind. The【C14】______of Expressionism was brought about by the vagueness of its longing【C15】______a better world, by its use of highly poetic language, and【C16】______the intensely personal and【C17】______nature of its mode of presentation. The partial re-establishment of stability in Germany after 1924 and the growth of more【C18】______political styles of social realism【C19】______the movements decline in the late 1920s. Expressionism was【C20】______killed by the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933. 【C1】