Crossword clues for expressionism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
expressionism \expressionism\ n.
an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.
a genre of German painting that tried to show the subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes themselves.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences 2 A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin. The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music.
The term is sometimes suggestive of angst. In a general sense, painters such as Matthias Grünewald and El Greco are sometimes termed expressionist, though in practice the term is applied mainly to 20th-century works. The Expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as Naturalism and Impressionism.
Usage examples of "expressionism".
He labored as a house painter but his real love consisted of a variety of sly and very odd expressionism on canvas.
They covered the entire range of art from abstract expressionism to photograph-clarity still life.
Germany which had given the world a Duerer and a Cranach had not been pre-eminent in the fine arts in modern times, though German expressionism in painting and the Munich Bauhaus architecture were interesting and original movements and German artists had participated in all the twentieth-century evolutions and eruptions represented by impressionism, cubism and Dadaism.
Like abstract expressionism, which was celebrated as an expression of American freedom, the shopping center stood as a symbol of the promise of American politics.
La Pedrera with a striking personality which some have linked with European expressionism and others have defined as an anticipation of surrealism.
Sixty seconds of derivative expressionism, some media critic dismissed it, but even he conceded it possessed a certain power.
For virtually every major writer associated with expressionism experimented with the genre, including Hugo Ball, Ernst Barlach, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Doblin, and Kurt Schwitters.
While a fascination with the unconscious world of dreams is conspicuous in expressionism, students of the period have emphasized in particular the socio-critical purposes to which the fairy tale was often devoted.
In this piece, one confronts the beginnings of Gothic carving and the tremendous expressionism of the northern world .
They were influenced by Constructivism and the Bauhaus, and promoted Expressionism and abstraction.
European expressionism found its way into the Midwest during the 1930s by way of the great river valleys.
The secret faith of the 20th century is nostalgia for the archaic, nostalgia for the Paleolithic, and that gives us body piercing, abstract expressionism, surrealism, jazz, rock and roll, and Catastrophe Theory.
The art magazine told me that when abstract expressionism reflected utter disenchantment with the dream it still reverted to rhetorical simplifications even in its impiety, and that it is not a unified stylistic entity because of its advocacy of alien ideas on the basis of a homiletic approach to experience.
This was a time of radical new art movements in the West, ranging from Expressionism to Fauvism and Cubism, end Japanese artists returning from study in France and elsewhere in Europe duly introduced each movement to their country, though not necessarily in any coherent order.
The dreams you get with a coprocessor are bloody, vivid, and obscure, like second-rate German Expressionism.