2. a genre of German painting that tried to show the subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes themselves. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Expressionism — is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, architecture and music. The term often implies… … Wikipedia
expressionism — ► NOUN ▪ a style in art, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express the inner world of emotion rather than external reality. DERIVATIVES expressionist noun & adjective expressionistic adjective … English terms dictionary
expressionism — [eks presh′əniz΄əm, ik spresh′əniz΄əm] n. [often E ] 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… … English World dictionary
Expressionism — Expressionist, n., adj. Expressionistic, adj. Expressionistically, adv. /ik spresh euh niz euhm/, n. 1. Fine Arts. a. (usually l.c.) a manner of painting, drawing, sculpting, etc., in which forms derived from nature are distorted or exaggerated… … Universalium
Expressionism — Both the chronological parameters and the artistic defi nition of Expressionism have changed in recent years. Once considered an avant garde movement identified roughly with the years 1905 1914, Expressionism was deemed a romantic revolt of… … Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik
EXPRESSIONISM — Expressionist architecture originally developed parallel to the aesthetic ideals of the Expressionist visual and performing arts in the European avant garde from around 1910 through 1924. From its German, Dutch, and Danish origins, the term… … Historical Dictionary of Architecture
Expressionism — The term Expressionism as it applies both to German theater and to drama was a manifestation of modernism by about 1910, though the rejection of illusionism on which Expressionism was primarily based had set in a decade earlier. As an artistic … Historical dictionary of German Theatre
Expressionism — A movement in literature and art which has its origins in the German theater of the early 20th century, expressionism eschews realist representation in favor of a nonrealistic atmosphere. Expressionistic works tend to display a dreamlike… … Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater
Expressionism — Identified in European art and literature as early as 1900, expressionism was a reaction against impressionism and sentimentality (not to mention realism), but it was not fully articulated in modernist theatrical terms until the 1910s. German… … The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater
Expressionism — (with an upper case E the more specific sense) An art movement dominant in Germany from 1905 1925, especially Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, which are usually referred to as German Expressionism, anticipated by Francisco de Goya y… … Glossary of Art Terms
