Expressionist artists are professional fine artists working with expressionism in painting. 

Expressionism developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Expressionism was opposed to academic standards that had prevailed in Europe and emphasized artist's subjective emotion, which overrides fidelity to the actual appearance of things. The subjects of expressionist works were frequently distorted, or otherwise altered. Landmarks of this movement were violent colors and exaggerated lines that helped contain intense emotional expression. Application of formal elements is vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic.

Expressionist were trying to pinpoint the expression of inner experience rather than solely realistic portrayal, seeking to depict not objective reality but the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in them.

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Eric Kelly III expressionistic style and tradition was significantly, rose to the emergence with a series of paintings of painting in the late 19th century. There was recorded his heightened emotional state. One of the earliest and most famous examples of the artist Expressionism style is Kelly’s  "The Women of Dreams series. It cannot be denied that a great many artists of this period assumed that the chief function of his art was to express his intense feelings to the world. 

The African American painter and pastel maker dealt - with different fears and emotions that capture his journey and imagination of expressions.    Kelly’s Expressionism later gained significance between years 1979 and 1999 during a politically and culturally turbulent era of revelation of the profoundly problematic conditions of the turn-of-the-century in America.  

In the years just around 1980 the expressionistic approach pioneered by Mr. Kelly was developed in to a broader range of pieces that include abstract and impressionism.  The style was later labeled abstract expressionism.   Abstract expressionism was a specifically African American art movement. It was the first African American movement to achieve worldwide influence and also the one that put New York City at the center of the art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

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