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EXPRESSIONISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("expressionism" is a kind of...):
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expressionism"):
neoexpressionism (an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings)
supra expressionism (a movement that tried to go beyond expressionism)
Derivation:
expressionist (an artist who is an adherent of expressionism)
expressionistic (of or relating to expressionism)
