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expressionism Definition

ex·pres·sion·ism (--iz′əm)

noun

an early 20th-cent. movement in art, literature, and drama, characterized by distortion of reality and the use of symbols, stylization, etc. to give objective expression to inner experience

expressionism Related Forms
ex·pres′·sion·ist adjective, noun ex·pres′·sion·is′·tic adjective ex·pres′·sion·is′·ti·cally adverb
expressionism Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • influence: Michael Curtiz was a director who came from Europe, influenced by German Expressionism, therefore the lighting was expressionistic.

Converse of object

  • include: Unfortunately, they brought many of their artistic ideals with them - including expressionism.
  • take: This intellectual, precisely messy work takes Abstract Expressionism and beats it at its own game.

Adjective modifier

  • abstract: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - New York painting movement of the 1940's with its artistic roots based upon Abstract Art.
  • German: German Expressionism doesn't come more bleak than this.
  • American: Setch is one of a generation of leading British artists whose work was fundamentally affected by American abstract expressionism in the late 1950s.
  • literary: Be prepared for black humor as well as mind-bending contradictions and deeply etched literary expressionism.
  • French: Immediately, this does not match the exuberance and vitality of French expressionism.
  • figurative: Like many painters who studied in the early 1980s, Innes fell under the spell of figurative expressionism.

Modifies a noun

  • overtone: Oil Paintings - For Sale Abstract art: Big esoteric oil paintings with expressionism overtones.

Preposition: in

  • art: The course will outline foreign influences on, and parallels to, German Expressionism in both visual art and literature.