There are so many themes to pick from:
Cubism (analytic and synthetic), Collage, Juan Gris, DADA, Paul Klee, Futurism, the onomatopoeic and its graphic side with Fortunato Depero, The Stijl, Cubofuturism, Plakatstil, Fehmy Agha, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, Surrealist female art (Remedios Varo & Leonora Carrington).
As usual, avoid the echo chamber effect! Go ahead.
Hi class.
We're already in Twentieth-Century-earth. But the end of Nineteenth-Century was intense.
We talked in detail about the Vienna Secession and its subsequent step, The Wiener Werkstätte (Germany and Austria's answer to England's Arts and Crafts movement), plus the Deutscher Werkbund.
Plus, there are other topics, Expressionism's graphic arts and movies, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, Bruno Taut's Glass Dome, Henry Van de Velde (here's the video of Hohenhof House), Marcelo Dudovich, Peter Behrens, Josef Hofmann's Stoclet Palace. Don't forget Symbolism.
Avoid the echo chamber. Please don't repeat a theme already in the comment thread.
Bildroman (the visual novel) is an expressionist narrative genre in which sequences of images without captions are used to tell stories. the atmosphere is inspired by medieval cuts.
I find ward's work to have an overpowering feeling (which fits the expressionist program).
frans masereel 25 images de la passion d' un homme, 1918
the awkward appearance of this medium helped express fear and frustration about social injustice.
Lynd Ward brought the genre to the US in 1929 when he produced Gods' man, which inspired other American visual novels and a 1930 parody by cartoonist Milt Gross called He Done Her Wrong
lynn ward, god's man (block and print)
