EXPRESSIONISM — MUNCH KIRCHNER EMOTIONAL DISTORTION

VISUAL STYLE: German Expressionism — Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The world distorted by feeling. Colour as emotion rather than description. Space warped by psychological state.

COLOUR PALETTE: Emotionally charged and unnaturalistic. Acid yellow skies. Blood orange horizon lines. Deep violet shadows. Green skin tones. The colours of anxiety, ecstasy, loneliness — pushed far beyond what the eye actually sees.

DISTORTION: Perspective is subjective — streets narrow to impossible points, figures elongate or compress under emotional pressure. The background reflects interior states rather than exterior reality.

LINE: Urgent and expressive — visible brushstroke, scratchy ink line, the hand moving faster than is strictly controlled. Lines carry feeling.

FIGURES: Elongated, simplified, isolated. Faces as masks of feeling — simplified to large dark eyes, open mouths, hands that reach or recoil.

COLOUR RELATIONSHIPS: Harsh, clashing, deliberately uncomfortable. Colours that fight each other rather than harmonise. The tension is the point.

No comfortable beauty. No resolved harmony. The honest ugliness of being alive and feeling it.