"Expressionismus & Expressionismi" exhibition opens at Pinacotheque de Paris

PARIS.- Pinacothèque de Paris‏ presents “Expressionismus & Expressionismi” this title is a neologism, in reference to the major exhibition on Futurism that was held in the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 1986 which the late Pontus Hutten had entitled Futurismo & Futurismi to show the diversity of movements that made up Italian Futurism. This neologism also illustrates the diversity of German Expressionism’s origins. Often perceived as monolithic, or, at the very least, grouped together under a single name, this movement was nonetheless made up of two diametrically opposite approaches. Expressionism chiefly came into being around two currents, two schools, opposite in every way, without however entering into conflict with each other. By analogy, it could be the sea and the mountain. Der Blaue Reiter was an intellectual movement, chiefly made up of theoreticians, of thinkers, of philosophers who had a very theoretic

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