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单词 expressionist
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Definition of expressionist in English:

expressionist

noun ɛkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nɪstɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nɪstɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəst
  • A painter, writer, or composer who is an exponent of expressionism, seeking to express through their work the inner world of emotion rather than external reality.

    the American abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He felt that it was with a kind of desperate bravery that the abstract expressionists attempted to give us future possibilities of movement embedded in a canvas of here and now.
    • "Even my parents still see the profession of my choice as a strange one although they saw my talent as a child," the expressionist told the reporter at his exhibition.
    • Expressionists seek to capture the essence of the real.
    • Earlier expressionists turned to tribal art to find the inspiration to distort the body in ways that could convey modern despair and agony.
    • From 1912, he was associated with progressive German painters, although he was never a true Expressionist.

Expressionists characteristically reject traditional ideas of beauty or harmony and use distortion, exaggeration, and other non-naturalistic devices in order to express emotional states. The paintings of El Greco and Grünewald exemplify expressionism in this broad sense, but the term is also used of a late 19th and 20th century European and specifically German movement tracing its origins to Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, which insisted on the primacy of the artist's feelings and mood, often incorporating violence and the grotesque

adjective ɛkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nɪstɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nɪstɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəst
  • Relating to expressionism or its exponents.

    he placed emphasis on an expressionist style
    an exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even artists who sought a new and hard realism, kept a good deal of Expressionist distortion and exaggeration in their work.
    • His metal sculpture paralleled the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters.
    • Many of his paintings were large, with allegorical overtones, typically painted in a vigorous Expressionist style.
    • He developed a heavy, austere Expressionist style, which he displayed in peasant scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, and interiors.
    • He believes the rift between modern and traditional architects originated with abstract expressionist painting.

Expressionists characteristically reject traditional ideas of beauty or harmony and use distortion, exaggeration, and other non-naturalistic devices in order to express emotional states. The paintings of El Greco and Grünewald exemplify expressionism in this broad sense, but the term is also used of a late 19th and 20th century European and specifically German movement tracing its origins to Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, which insisted on the primacy of the artist's feelings and mood, often incorporating violence and the grotesque

Derivatives

  • expressionistic

  • adjective ɪkˌsprɛʃ(ə)ˈnɪstɪkɛkˌsprɛʃ(ə)ˈnɪstɪkɪkˌsprɛʃəˈnɪstɪk
    • Further technical freedom came with his adoption of watercolour as his chosen medium, and a more expressionistic approach to his subjects, whether visionary, landscape, or still life.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In this exhibition, viewers were able to compare expressionistic early works by each artist before moving on to examples of their mature output.
      • The works are an expressionistic mix of raw materials, typography, colour and artificial lighting, involving often quite bizarre detailing.
      • He produced a portrait which, though not unsympathetic, adopted an expressionistic intensity of colour more vigorous than anything he had attempted previously.
      • He began painting in an expressionistic style and produced collages, combining elements drawn from popular culture with his interests in European history, religion, and Byzantine art.
  • expressionistically

  • adverb-ˈnɪstɪk(ə)li
    • Horizontal bands of expressionistically painted reds and yellows run rather muddily down onto the painting's blank lower half.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The piece contains stylistic features like energetic brushstrokes and jewel-like colours used expressionistically.
      • Figures are treated expressionistically as a vehicle to explore the artist's feeling.
      • She overlaid disparate histories and geographies in her installation of gridded, expressionistically rendered paintings.
      • He produced some of his most innovative imagery, including a series of expressionistically intense watercolors.

Rhymes

impressionist, progressionist, secessionist
 
 

Definition of expressionist in US English:

expressionist

nounɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəstikˈspreSH(ə)nəst
  • A painter, writer, or composer who is an exponent of expressionism, seeking to express through their work the inner world of emotion rather than external reality.

    Expressionists characteristically reject traditional ideas of beauty or harmony and use distortion, exaggeration, and other non-naturalistic devices in order to express emotional states. The paintings of El Greco and Grünewald exemplify expressionism in this broad sense, but the term is also used of a late 19th and 20th century European and specifically German movement tracing its origins to Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, which insisted on the primacy of the artist's feelings and mood, often incorporating violence and the grotesque

    the American abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock
    Example sentencesExamples
    • "Even my parents still see the profession of my choice as a strange one although they saw my talent as a child," the expressionist told the reporter at his exhibition.
    • Earlier expressionists turned to tribal art to find the inspiration to distort the body in ways that could convey modern despair and agony.
    • From 1912, he was associated with progressive German painters, although he was never a true Expressionist.
    • Expressionists seek to capture the essence of the real.
    • He felt that it was with a kind of desperate bravery that the abstract expressionists attempted to give us future possibilities of movement embedded in a canvas of here and now.
adjectiveɪkˈsprɛʃ(ə)nəstikˈspreSH(ə)nəst
  • Relating to expressionism or its exponents.

    Expressionists characteristically reject traditional ideas of beauty or harmony and use distortion, exaggeration, and other non-naturalistic devices in order to express emotional states. The paintings of El Greco and Grünewald exemplify expressionism in this broad sense, but the term is also used of a late 19th and 20th century European and specifically German movement tracing its origins to Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor, which insisted on the primacy of the artist's feelings and mood, often incorporating violence and the grotesque

    he placed emphasis on an expressionist style
    an exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He developed a heavy, austere Expressionist style, which he displayed in peasant scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, and interiors.
    • Even artists who sought a new and hard realism, kept a good deal of Expressionist distortion and exaggeration in their work.
    • His metal sculpture paralleled the work of the Abstract Expressionist painters.
    • He believes the rift between modern and traditional architects originated with abstract expressionist painting.
    • Many of his paintings were large, with allegorical overtones, typically painted in a vigorous Expressionist style.
 
 
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