Example sentences for: expressionism

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

  • You get the sense, continually, of various fallen reins picked up, of artists in remote mining towns discovering Courbet, or Whistler, or Léger, or reinventing Impressionism or Expressionism as if they had never heard of those schools--as indeed they might not have.

  • The title of his sendup of abstract expressionism, Painting with Two Balls (1960)--and there they are, squeezed forlornly between two big panels of drips and brushstrokes--is about as explicit as Johns ever gets.

  • As one ventures deeper into the 20 th century, from Dadaism to Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, it is Harnett one thinks of more often than Cézanne.

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

  • It coincided exactly with the extraordinary rise of Abstract Expressionism and the seismic shift of the center of the art world from Paris to New York.


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