Emotional Realist Expressionism (ERE): The Indivisible Triad — A Rule-Based Criterion for Painting

Emotional Realist Expressionism (ERE) is a painting movement founded in 2026 on a single structural principle: a work must simultaneously hold real human presence, authentic emotional charge, and expressionist freedom, with none of the three permitted to dominate. The principle is named the Indivisible Triad. This preliminary version sets out the full theoretical framework: the derivation of the three terms as the exhaustive conditions of the painting act itself; the grounding of the first term not in humanist conviction but in perceptual evidence from face-detection research; the differentiation of ERE from its lineage — German Expressionism, Kokoschka, Soutine, Bacon, Auerbach, Dumas, Ghenie — on four narrow points; the studio method; and a forty-year longitudinal case study of a self-taught practice from which the rule was derived rather than imposed. Centrally, the movement states the conditions under which it would be false. A three-threshold protocol reduces each term to a single yes-or-no test, numerical scoring is explicitly rejected, and three falsification conditions are named. To the author's knowledge, no founding document of a modern art movement has previously specified what would refute it; the claim is stated in checkable form and the list is left open. The complete illustrated volume is in preparation and will carry its own ISBN. The third-party critical text specified in §6.4 has not been commissioned; its place is left open, and this document is issued in part as that commission made public.