Expressionism was a cultural movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the start of the 20th-century, 1911 Fauvist and Cubist exhibition in Berlin. But this is just the start of the word, the american indian expressed love, happiness, anger, and praise with dance and song, in painting and carvings. They honored their dead with a ceremonial show that could make a grown man cry, I like to believe, Early man (caveman) would have done a lot of the same things with the lack of vocabulary pointing and gesturing would have been the obvious choice