expressionist
nounEtymology From expression + -ist.
1
A painter who paints in this style.
- Derived terms
- abstract expressionist, neo-expressionist
expressionist
adjEtymology From expression + -ist.
1
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
- “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025:
- Derived terms
- antiexpressionist, expressionistic