Anti-academic attitudes to romanticism and expressionism -- The new role of colour and the symbolist change of subject -- Internationalism of the art scene as a condition for the growth of expressionism -- Centres of expressionist painting: the Brücke and the Blaue Reiter -- What is meant by 'expressionism'? -- Principles and directions of the new vision -- The expressionist manner of painting -- Attitudes to the pictures of the artistic revolt