Example sentences for: expressionist

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

  • Critics argue over the meaning of the Abstract Expressionist's famous floating rectangles.

  • He notes that Chinese painters mastered verisimilitude early on--by the 10 th or 11 th century--and spent the next few centuries developing Expressionist departures from it.

  • Two summer shows, side by side at the Museum of Modern Art, introduce little-known figures with close ties to the Abstract Expressionist generation.

  • "Was Soutine at this time what might be called an abstract expressionist?"

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)


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