HYDE PARK — The Smart Museum of Art on Wednesday is opening a new exhibit of “unnatural” art.
An opening reception for “Expressionist Impulses: German and Central European Art, 1890-1990” will be held from 7:30-9 p.m. Wednesday at the museum, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.
The museum will display 80 works from the expressionist period in central Europe, a movement marked by its rejection of naturalism of Impressionism.
The exhibit brings out work by artists from Poland, Romania, the former Czechoslovakia and other countries who were using color and form to try do get beyond representing the physical appearance of a scene and elicit an emotion.
The work spans themes of the 20th century from economic depression to utopianism and political division and exile.
The exhibit is free and open to the public and runs through Jan. 10.
The exhibit complements the "To See in Black and White: German and Central European Photography, 1920s–1950s," also opening on Oct. 1 and running through Jan. 10 at the museum.
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