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expressionism|ɛkˈsprɛʃənɪz(ə)m|
Freq. with capital initial.
[f. expression + -ism; cf. next.]
The methods, style, or attitude of expressionists; spec. a style of painting in which the artist seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the physical world; hence, a similar style or movement in literature, drama, music, etc. Cf. abstract expressionism (abstract a. 6).
1908Edin. Rev. Oct. 466 The appearance of these later and more extreme forms of expressionism..has aided the understanding of beauty partly through a deeper probing of the sensuous elements in æsthetic experience. 1920Arts & Decoration XIII. 88 (title) Mid-European Expressionism. Ibid., The sole aim of impressionism was to reflect the impression of nature upon the artist's eye; expressionism, on the contrary, proceeds from the subjectivity of the artist and seeks to form a picture according to the laws of an arbitrary, inner world. 1921Galsworthy To Let i. i. 13 Expression! Ah, they were all Expressionists now, he had heard, on the Continent... He wondered where this—this Expressionism—had been hatched. The thing was a regular disease! 1923MacGowan & Jones Continental Stagecraft iii. 27 A Symbolism that is far on the way towards Expressionism. Ibid. 31 Expressionism..is a violent storm of emotion beating up from the unconscious mind. 1924A. Dukes Youngest Drama 136 Realism and expressionism represent attitudes of mind and not uses of theatrical machinery. 1924A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. iv. 132 Giles..felt that he could not adequately defend his theories, which rested upon an objection to the use of the body as a means of primitive expressionism. 1925H. Carter New Spirit European Theatre 220 Expressionism is simply expression taking the form of a new technique for the purpose of giving the most intense effect..to the species of drama that expressed pre-war and war time insurrectionary tendencies. 1926[see abstractionism 2]. 1926F. V. P. Rutter Evol. Mod. Art v. 112 The kaleidoscopic paintings of the Italian Futurists were matched at Munich by the Expressionism of the Russo-Polish artist Wassily Kandinsky. 1929P. A. Scholes Listener's Hist. Mus. III. 142 Critics writing of plays (but it applies all round) have spoken of Expressionism as ‘the objectivization of the subjective’. Ibid. 144 The Schönbergians and their Expressionism in music. 1937English Studies XIX. 241 (title) The birth of expressionism in the work of D. H. Lawrence. Ibid., Expressionism, a term used here in its widest sense to cover all anti-realist as well as anti-idealist movements..reaching from Strindberg in the north to Marinetti in the south. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 303/2 Expressionism in music, judged by its products, is just an advanced phase of Romanticism in music. 1958Listener 27 Nov. 897/3 Expressionism implies an uncompromisingly violent utterance, coupled too often with a self-pitying sensibility. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 396/1 The most important forerunner of Expressionism in its specific sense was van Gogh. |