Crossword clues for expressionist
expressionist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
expressionist \expressionist\ expressionistic \expressionistic\adj. 1. of or pertaining to expressionism (definition 2); as, expressionist art.
expressionist \expressionist\ n. an artist who is an adherent of expressionism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850 in reference to an artist who seeks to portray the emotional experience of the subject, from expression (which was used in the fine arts by 1715 with a sense "way of expressing") + -ist. Modern sense is from 1914, from expressionism (from 1908 as an artistic style or movement). As a noun from 1880. Related: Expressionistic.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism n. A painter who paints in this style
WordNet
adj. of or relating to expressionism; "expressionist art" [syn: expressionistic]
n. an artist who is an adherent of expressionism
Usage examples of "expressionist".
Catatonic Expressionist, harangued him with the Great Betrayal, told of the Dance of Death.
And I moved through these expressionist perspectives in my black dress as though I was the creator of all and of myself, too, in a black dress, in love, crying, walking through the city in the third person singular, my own heroine, as though the world stretched out from my eye like spokes from a sensitised hub that galvanised all to life when I looked at it.
Zhukovsky and Pushkin and aimed at developing the emotional and expressionist character of poetry.
Joy looked slug-white and bloated, a sickly exuberance of flesh strangled by black lace, the monstrous ikon of a German Expressionist wet dream.
It contained a splendid selection of modern paintings - Kokoschka, Chagall and expressionist and impressionist works.
The poetry especially -- I sometimes chased after him -- formed marbles that stuck in my ears: expressionist poems.
German expressionist film, covered in dirt except where rivulets of sweat had carved through the grime.
This sampling of people, muddying the halls from Egyptian to Expressionist, had been specially selected for extremes of characteristic.
But the expressionist painter Klingsor is a more direct self-portrait of the Hesse of 1919.
What a cheap, convenient, expressionist device, this sawdust ring, this little O!
I see that it was August 13, 2018 -another Monday -- that my predecessor used this gun to splatter his brains across the plate-glass window opposite this desk, like some mad expressionist splashing housepaints across a giant canvas.
She knows most of the patterns, and even that the most beautiful is South African, smoky mauve-toned Expressionist streaks suggesting a sunset landscape of great and alien beauty.
Abstract expressionist paintings hung on the walls, splotches of colors communicating a welter of emotions.
Page had been staring toward a violently colored Abstract Expressionist painting across from her all the while she spoke in a monotone, her flat, bleak voice communicating no hint of the intense turmoil that her eyes indicated she was feeling.
Carved pillars made of whole tree trunks stood in three rings inside, and two huge freestanding gateposts like Abstract Expressionist totem poles marked the southeastern door.