Read the text and say which of the following statements is true.
"What is Expressionism?
Expressionism was an avant-garde movement that developed in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. As a reaction against Impressionism and academic art, expressionism refers to art that expresses the feelings of the artist. Expressionist painters wanted to present the world from a subjective perspective and depict the emotional experience that objects arouse in them.
The term expressionism was coined by Antonin Matějček, a Czech art historian, in 1910 as the opposite of impressionism and indicates one of the main currents of art that expresses highly subjective, personal self-expression. Distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy are all characteristics of expressionism."
- Expressionism differed from impressionism and academic art.
- The main genre of the expressionism are landscapes.
- The term was first used by a french art historian.