The Scream of Nature; Edvard Munch; 1893; Oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard; 91 x 73 cm. Photograph: Coldcreation (2019), Wikimedia Commons

A modernist art movement that emerged in Europe in the early twentieth century, particularly Germany, in response to the dominant influences of naturalism and realism, and favoured distorted, exaggerated and fantastic depictions of subjects to convey the artist’s internal emotions.