How to Use expressionism in a Sentence

expressionism

noun

• There's none of Aronofsky's trademark expressionism, present in past films like Black Swan and mother!
  — Brianna Zigler, Chron, 19 Dec. 2022
• Back then, when Mr. Katz was in his mid-20s, such works were a daring departure from the reigning abstract expressionism.
  — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2017
• At times Lee seems to be trying, with mixed success, to channel the shadowy digital expressionism of Michael Mann.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• His screen work, however, tends to tamp down on the physicality and rely on his lantern-in-the-dark eyes and tempered expressionism.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2022
• Fran Rushing, a retired professor from San Jose, will cover abstract expressionism to pop art in her last talk of the series March 30.
  — Khalida Sarwari, The Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2017
• But the toughness of German Expressionism can be a hard sell, particularly to Asian buyers.
  — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• Abstracting from life was also striking the art world during this time, with abstract expressionism giving way to color-field painting and pop art.
  — Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• Her approach was influenced by German expressionism, which encouraged the inner feelings of the artist to seep into the portrait.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
• Strauss’ 1880 String Quartet in A major hardly hints at lush romanticism and sometime raw expressionism to come.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• Schoenberg’s heroes were Brahms and Wagner, and his style of expressionism grows straight out of Romanticism.
  — Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
• Görner says that, as a young man, the artist was especially wary of Egon Schiele, whose own take on expressionism vied for attention and notoriety with Kokoschka’s.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• I wasn’t impressed with most of it, resembling something done on LSD which is less interesting when the drug wears off – a weak abstract expressionism with distorted apparitions here and there.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2011
• The Singer Laren's collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• The Singer Laren’s collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism, and cubism.
  — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• Finally, Gwen Chasan is an Arlington artist who paints with watercolor and acrylic to create works that bridge expressionism and realism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• With some ensembles, the angular expressionism of the Bartok Fourth (1929) pushes the music into ugliness.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Bennett, who’s 40, gives students a healthy dose of German Expressionism alongside the nuts and bolts, from basic screenwriting to advanced postproduction techniques.
  — Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 July 2017
• With a twist-ending that’s been catching audiences unawares for nearly a century (it was released in 1920), this classic of German expressionism from director Robert Wiene is the wellspring from which so much of movie horror flowed.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Pieces such as these, Hickson said, were a break from the nonrepresentational abstract expressionism.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 4 May 2017
• The most beguiling Azilal recall a palette of modern expressionism.
  — Carmen Rosy Hall, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• This was not really the kind of exhibition for her museum, which primarily focused on the Dada art movement — an absurdist form of expressionism that rose in reaction to the horrors of World War I.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
• Buvala's work incorporates abstract with expressionism mainly using charcoal on paper and found objects such as wood, glass, metal and more.
  — Laura Hinderman, Daily Southtown, 16 May 2017
• Abstract expressionism is, as a movement in American art, an aberration.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 Aug. 2020
• Inspired by the intense experiences of World War I, filmmakers in 1920s Germany began experimenting with expressionism on the movie screen.
  — Jodi Cilley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
• The museum houses the collection of American couple William and Anna Singer, with a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
• Kustiyah’s beautifully painted portraits, still lifes, and landscapes are pervaded by a soft, lyrical expressionism.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2023
• The other, a vertical scroll by the renowned 16th-century landscapist Wen Boren, illustrates a contrasting principle, that of the scholar-artist-poet using nature as a vehicle to reflect internal states, an early kind of expressionism.
  — Melik Kaylan, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• Expressionism is a style meant to release and reveal emotion, not especially capture visual reality.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
• His use of color was as well known among painters as his mercurial and erratic personality, and scholars, including Wolanin, increasingly see his late work as a major augury of abstraction expressionism.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
• The subjects’ mutability echoes the local artist’s slippery style, which incorporates collage and shifts easily from realism to expressionism.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024