expressionist

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His early pre-expressionist paintings are godlike in execution, even if someone else has painted a Pierrot before him.

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Quick take

A painter who paints in this style.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of expressionist gathered in one view.

noun

A painter who paints in this style.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for expressionist.

noun

A painter who paints in this style.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.

Example sentences

His early pre-expressionist paintings are godlike in execution, even if someone else has painted a Pierrot before him.

They didn't just establish abstract expressionist art, they crafted a whole culture around art and the humanities.

Nobody considers a photo-perfect painting better than an expressionist painting (except a bunch of naive people).

While the CIA did secretly fund the abstract expressionist movement and use it as propaganda[0], they didn't invent it out of whole cloth.

I like a fair bit of expressionist and surrealist art, although some of it gets a bit too silly.

I would argue that most art around us is current pop art or classical/realist/romantic art, not modern/postmodern/abstract expressionist art.

In Germany however, they've still got a lot of downright expressionist playgrounds.

You're now using Hinge to distribute unassuming abstract expressionist pixel art.

I do claim they established abstract expressionist art, but that is also beside the point.

A lot of abstract expressionist and other experimental art pieces suffer from preservation issues, often due to unorthodox techniques and materials such as thick application of paint.

You can no more give a succinct, definitive differentiation between prose and poetry than you can between Rock&Roll and Pop music, or between Modernist and Expressionist painting.

Maybe you are interested in abstract expressionist art.

Quote examples

If I tell a human painter “paint XYZ in an expressionist style,” I don’t become the author of the painting.

Yes because generating "art" that is entirely stealing from the hard work and actual dedication put forth by real artists is anything like the expressionist movement in the 20th century.

Or just trying to score coolness points by having a sneaker designer make time-limited themes - sorry, colorways with names like "Activist" and "Expressionist".

I can crank out like 20-30 of these puppies a day!" There's no real progression from his subway figure paintings to his surrealist period to his abstract expressionist period.