How to Use expressionism in a Sentence

expressionism

noun

• Roberta’s wild, self-destructive expressionism feels like new ground for her, and the change in mode and class sometimes fits her awkwardly.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• There's none of Aronofsky's trademark expressionism, present in past films like Black Swan and mother!
  — Brianna Zigler, Chron, 19 Dec. 2022
• Structured in five chapters, the film spans silent-era expressionism, film noir and a vampire love story shot in one of Gan’s signature long takes.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
• Abstracting from life was also striking the art world during this time, with abstract expressionism giving way to color-field painting and pop art.
  — Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• At times Lee seems to be trying, with mixed success, to channel the shadowy digital expressionism of Michael Mann.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Abstract expressionism is, as a movement in American art, an aberration.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 Aug. 2020
• Buvala's work incorporates abstract with expressionism mainly using charcoal on paper and found objects such as wood, glass, metal and more.
  — Laura Hinderman, Daily Southtown, 16 May 2017
• Her approach was influenced by German expressionism, which encouraged the inner feelings of the artist to seep into the portrait.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
• The most beguiling Azilal recall a palette of modern expressionism.
  — Carmen Rosy Hall, Vogue, 22 June 2018
• Pieces such as these, Hickson said, were a break from the nonrepresentational abstract expressionism.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 4 May 2017
• That, to me, is indicative of German expressionism, the choreography.
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 27 May 2026
• But the toughness of German Expressionism can be a hard sell, particularly to Asian buyers.
  — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• Schoenberg’s heroes were Brahms and Wagner, and his style of expressionism grows straight out of Romanticism.
  — Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2018
• Expressionism is a style meant to release and reveal emotion, not especially capture visual reality.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
• The novelist Thomas Mann thought that German expressionism and Nazism both sprang from the same root of emotional self-abandonment.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• The Singer Laren's collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• Its scruffy cross-hatching, dazzling lighting and punkish energy indicate an official shift from realism to expressionism.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Singer Laren’s collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism, and cubism.
  — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• Finally, Gwen Chasan is an Arlington artist who paints with watercolor and acrylic to create works that bridge expressionism and realism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• Görner says that, as a young man, the artist was especially wary of Egon Schiele, whose own take on expressionism vied for attention and notoriety with Kokoschka’s.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• The painter and sculptor explored feminine power and paved the way for later generations, working outside prevailing trends with a playful blend of expressionism and primitivism.
  — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Strauss’ 1880 String Quartet in A major hardly hints at lush romanticism and sometime raw expressionism to come.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• The subjects’ mutability echoes the local artist’s slippery style, which incorporates collage and shifts easily from realism to expressionism.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• Bennett, who’s 40, gives students a healthy dose of German Expressionism alongside the nuts and bolts, from basic screenwriting to advanced postproduction techniques.
  — Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Los Angeles Magazine, 10 July 2017
• But Hosoda’s expressionism virtually disappears thereafter, and a dry sense of order exerts itself once the story is spirited back towards Elsinore.
  — Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025
• His use of color was as well known among painters as his mercurial and erratic personality, and scholars, including Wolanin, increasingly see his late work as a major augury of abstraction expressionism.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 5 June 2018
• With some ensembles, the angular expressionism of the Bartok Fourth (1929) pushes the music into ugliness.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Apparently, this change took place in 2022 when Ankara, the capital of Turkey, sent in a formal request to rebrand its country's name to a name that better highlights its culture and expressionism.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026
• The museum houses the collection of American couple William and Anna Singer, with a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
• This was not really the kind of exhibition for her museum, which primarily focused on the Dada art movement — an absurdist form of expressionism that rose in reaction to the horrors of World War I.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019