Expressionism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  expressionism \expressionism\ n.
     1. an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's
        subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. a genre of German painting that tried to show the


        subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes
        themselves.
        [WordNet 1.5] expressionist

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  expressionism
       n : 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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "expressionism":
     abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration,
     false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy,
     injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting,
     misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement,
     misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion,
     slanting, twisting, understatement