ALL meanings of expressionism
- noun expressionism 20th-century modern art movement 1
- noun expressionism A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world. 1
- noun expressionism A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences. 0
- noun expressionism A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music. 0
- uncountable noun expressionism Expressionism is a style of art, literature, and music which uses symbols and exaggeration to represent emotions, rather than representing physical reality. 0
- noun expressionism an artistic and literary movement originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, which sought to express emotions rather than to represent external reality: characterized by the use of symbolism and of exaggeration and distortion 0
- noun expressionism an early 20th-cent. movement in art, literature, and drama, characterized by distortion of reality and the use of symbols, stylization, etc. to give objective expression to inner experience 0