expressionist
pronunciation
How to pronounce expressionist in British English:
UK [ɪk'spreʃənɪst]
How to pronounce expressionist in American English:
US [ɪk'spreʃənɪst]
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- Noun:
- an artist who is an adherent of expressionism
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to expressionism
Word Origin
- expressionist (adj.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Influence of west expressionist aesthetics on chinese gloomy poems .
- 2. They paid for tours by the boston symphony orchestra and abstract expressionist art exhibitions .
- 3. In the 1970s he returned and introduced expressionist art to his homeland .
- 4. This is a semi-silent film full of expressionist special-effects .
- 5. If the last glory of modem art is the abstract expressionist painting , then , pop art and surrealist painting anticipates the transformation of contemporary art .