Example sentences for: expressionism

How can you use “expressionism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Another, related, bright spot was the 1920s' movement that has come to be called Precisionism, which celebrated American industrialism as a new religion (Sheeler called one of his paintings of Henry Ford's River Rouge plant My Egypt ). And, finally, the greatest and most distinctively American modern school was Abstract Expressionism, which blossomed after World War II and is snipped in mid-bloom by the end of the exhibition.

  • Steeped in Expressionism (Strindberg's A Dream Play had been mounted in Germany only a few years earlier), Traumnovelle has a paranoid dream logic that feels inexorable and a tone of breathless intimacy that smoothes out many of its absurdities.

  • The 56 paintings in the show are hung in three sections, each corresponding to one of the three ways critics have viewed Soutine: Soutine as an untutored "primitive" painter, which is how he was seen in the 1920s; Soutine as a master and the last great hope for traditional painting in France--his reputation in the 1930s; and Soutine as a prophet of Abstract Expressionism, which is what critics thought in the 1940s, when they "rediscovered" him.

  • This work has always been cited as a classic killing-the-father act or a declaration of independence from the dogma of Abstract Expressionism.

  • But more and more of these disengaged bits of audio expressionism are floating around us, daring us to make sense of them.


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