ABSTRACT
Expressionism, as a movement in modernist art and culture, is more difficult to explain in the context of Latvian modernism in the early twentieth century. This is because it is primarily bound up with the period of the First World War and the 1920s as a heightened form of visual expression; one that Latvian artists became familiar with and used to great effect as a revolutionary language to convey a message about the tragic events in the life of the nation. From a linear time perspective, the resonance of expressionism found echoes in the most diverse modifications throughout the whole of the twentieth century.
