EXPRESSING EMOTIONS IN ARTWORK

There are many ways to express our emotions beside physically.

One of the way to express emotions are by art.

These way had exist since prehistorical ages when men live in cave and wear like barbarians. One of the earliest paintings that exist are :

CAVE PAINTINGS

The history continues. Here is the link about history of art in details.
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An artwork can tell stories or depict ideas; it can be realistic or abstract.

However, for some people, the most important issue in art is that it expresses or stirs emotions. Art can be a record of what the artist is feeling and, at the same time, it can bring about emotional reactions in the viewer.
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This type of art has been called :

"Expressionist Art"


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Artists make choices about :
-color
-line, texture
-composition to evoke or express feelings.

Sometimes this leads to abstracting a subject to make it more expressive.
In the 1950s, a group of American artists referred to as Abstract Expressionists believed that :

"the best way to express pure emotions was to create nonobjective or totally abstract artworks in which colors, lines, shapes, and textures directly conveyed their emotional state."

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I think that all these kind of art is the best way to express emotions. I'll apply abstract style to my artwork with colors, lines, shapes, and textures to bring out more emotional state.