Featuring works from the
Mills College Art Museum鈥檚 collection, Anxious States: Expressionism from
Gauguin to
Oliveira follows the evolution of Expressionism as an artistic response to features of modernity鈥攕ocial anxiety, disruptive technologies, global conflicts鈥攁cross a range of time periods and cultures. Expressionism describes an aesthetic style distilled from the feelings of uncertainty and alienation born amid the industrialization of the early 20th Century. The works included in this exhibition can be read as emotional as well as political reactions to a rapidly changing world.