Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movement in the arts during the early 1900s that emphasized distortion of external reality in order to express the artist's subjective experience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The methods or style of the expressionists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.
- noun a genre of German painting that tried to show the subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes themselves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
movement in thearts in which theartist did notdepict objective reality , but rather asubjective expression of theirinner experiences - noun A somewhat analogous
genre in early 20th centurymusic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
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Examples
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A classic piece of abstract expressionism from the Polish state music publisher, who opted for these sorts of far-out covers quite a bit.
Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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A classic piece of abstract expressionism from the Polish state music publisher, who opted for these sorts of far-out covers quite a bit.
Deep covers Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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But I feel that output from people like you should be more referred to as "expressionism" because it encompasses so many realms.
Mike Ragogna: Heady Nuggs, Gummyskulls & A Box O' Dylan: Conversations with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne plus Jon Polk Mike Ragogna 2011
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Courtauld Gallery, WC2, to 18 SepSSAn 80th birthday celebration of Barrie Cooke's visceral expressionism, which is appropriately held in his adopted home country of Ireland.
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Courtauld Gallery, WC2, to 18 SepSSAn 80th birthday celebration of Barrie Cooke's visceral expressionism, which is appropriately held in his adopted home country of Ireland.
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But I feel that output from people like you should be more referred to as "expressionism" because it encompasses so many realms.
Mike Ragogna: Heady Nuggs, Gummyskulls & A Box O' Dylan: Conversations with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne plus Jon Polk Mike Ragogna 2011
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Even the names reflect this: Fuller, Murnau, Lang, the cinematic avatars of noir and its origins in German expressionism.
Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Howard 2007
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Even the names reflect this: Fuller, Murnau, Lang, the cinematic avatars of noir and its origins in German expressionism.
10/2: Lot In Sodom; North By Northwest; The American Soldier Ed Howard 2007
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I feel the pendulum is swinging back, now, toward expressionism, which is where I think I fit best.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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I feel the pendulum is swinging back, now, toward expressionism, which is where I think I fit best.
MONSTER ISLAND by David Wellington (Thunder's Mouth 2006) 2006
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