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expressionism

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ex·pres·sion·is·m /ɪkˈspreʃənɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]  Aa style of painting, writing, or music that expresses feelings rather than describing objects and experiences 〔绘画、文学或音乐的〕表现主义expressionist noun [countable]expressionist adjective [only before noun] the expressionist movement 表现主义运动
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expressionismLike Watson, Carr has assembled generous visual material on the best-known artists of abstract expressionism, especially Pollock and de Kooning.O'Hara's list of friends reads like a Who's Who of abstract expressionism.She is remembered largely for her pioneering ` dancing modernism, a corollary to abstract expressionism.In the context of post-war uncertainty it is relatively easy to relate existentialism to abstract expressionism.Abstract expressionism is commonly identified as the pinnacle of modernism.Impressionism begat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which sired futurism, expressionism and all manner of errant abstractions.Leftists, right-wingers, and Dadaists all attacked spiritual expressionism in 1919, focusing much of their anger on the Bauhaus.
ex·pres·sion·is·m nounChineseSyllable
music or of painting, style that a Corpus writing,


expressionism
expressionism /ɪkˈspreʃənɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]
a style of painting, writing, or music that expresses feelings rather than describing objects and experiences
—expressionist noun [countable]
—expressionist adjective [only before noun]:
    the expressionist movement


ex·pres·sion·ism (also Expressionism) BrE /ɪkˈspreʃənɪzəm/ 🔊NAmE /ɪkˈspreʃənɪzəm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a style and movement in early 20th century art, theatre, cinema and music that tries to express people's feelings and emotions rather than showing events or objects in a realistic way 表现主义 ex·pres·sion·ist BrE /ɪkˈspreʃənɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ɪkˈspreʃənɪst/ 🔊