expressionist

Examples

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• In the early years of the decade, Alberto Greco pioneered a self-promotional, expressionist brand of action art.

  Academic text (2014)

• Inside, the house was full of Dutch modern furniture, abstract expressionist art, and apricot-colored carpets.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The line they describe looks very much like a German expressionist version of a lightning bolt.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Nick has this sort of cubist tie in sharp, expressionist orange and green.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The Wild belongs to this moment of Abstract Expressionist painting's expansion.

  Academic text (2014)

• Here is Ben Urich in deep fear, all expressionist lines, a stand-in for the reader's reaction.

  Blog text (31)

• And you can feel the expressionist impulse in the darkness and the disturbance that's a central part of almost every Hitchcock film.

• The expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka was Czech on his father's side.

  Academic text (2008)

• All those cheerful, drunken faces seemed to loom as I passed by them, blurring together like an expressionist painting.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The vivid colors and distorted forms in the painting reflect its expressionist style, highlighting the artist's emotions.

Synonyms

E

expressive

vsexpressionist

41 3.4

Showing feelings and ideas clearly in the face or voice

is about being able to show emotion rather than the art movement focus

E

expressionistic

vsexpressionist

• Specialized

3 8.8

A style that shows strong personal feelings instead of a realistic view, often in art

is the general adjective for that art style stressing emotions over reality

E

expressional

vsexpressionist

6.1

Showing feelings or ideas clearly through art

is specific to the named art style that emphasizes subjective experience

Antonyms

R

realistic

• Specialized

5 5.6

Supporting the idea that the world exists even if we do not think about it

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology