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expressionist, n. (and a.)|ɛkˈsprɛʃənɪst|
[f. as expressional a. + -ist.]
An artist whose work aims chiefly at ‘expression’; spec. (freq. with capital initial) an artist, composer, writer, etc., who exhibits the style or technique of expressionism. Also attrib. or as adj. Cf. abstract expressionist (abstract a. 6).
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 394/2 The expressionist school of modern painters. 1880Papers Manch. Lit. Club VI. 184 The expressionists..who undertake to express special emotions, or passions. 1914W. Lewis in Blast June 143 Of all the tags going, ‘Futurist’..serves as well as any for the active painters of to-day... We may hope before long to find a new word. If Kandinsky had found a better word than ‘Expressionist’ he might have supplied a useful alternative. Ibid. 144 Balla..is a rather violent and geometric sort of Expressionist. His paintings are purely abstract. 1915Ibid. July 39/1 There have grown up three distinct groups of artists in Europe... The third group is formed by the expressionist movement, that is Kandinsky. 1915Observer 1 Aug. 5/6 The reviled Post-Impressionists,..Cubists, Futurists, Expressionists, Vorticists of to-day may be the honoured masters of to-morrow. 1920Arts & Decoration XIII. 88/3 Arnold Schönberg, the musical expressionist—who also painted. 1921[see expressionism]. 1924New Statesman 2 Aug. 494/2 Elmer Rice's play, The Adding Machine..has two or three expressionist scenes, but is for the most part not in the expressionist manner. 1927Observer 11 Sept. 6 A cocaine romance written by one of the most gifted of those men who joined the band of expressionists early in the movement. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 303/2 The music of the composers who call themselves Expressionists..is..simply ‘ultra-emotional’. 1962Listener 20 Sept. 453/1 The peculiar tension of the characteristic Expressionist instrumental form lies in the aphoristic compression of a dreamlike state. |