expressionistic - A characteristic of some art, generally since the mid-19th century, leaning toward the expression of emotion over objective description.
Expressionistic Movements
(Late 19th - Early 20th Century)
Expressionism developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Hartal paints in an expressionistic style with additional elements such as photographs.
Any loose brushy, dripped or poured abstaract painting is called expressionistic (with a lower case "e" and the "ic" at the end). Often these styles are linked with a particular historical period, set of ideas, and particular artistic movement.
One is the more abstract and expressionistic form stemming from the experimental easel painting of the Cubist and Fauves groups in Paris and developing into the large projects of Pablo Picasso (Unesco, Paris), Henri Matisse (chapel at Vence, Fr.), ...
Roy Lichtenstein's early work had a hint of Americana - "Expressionistic Cubism ....of cowboys and Indians" was how he put it - but it was still based on the painterly conventions that he had been taught to respect.
In the center foreground at the bottom of the painting, a dog appears made up of expressionistic flecks of color that could be reflections from the water. This dog was derived from a 1966 photograph by Ronald C. James showing a Dalmatian.
The 20th century's first expressionistic movement, Fauvism, inspired by Cezanne and led by Matisse, claimed to "celebrate nature through color". Fauvism represents an effort to capture the "spontaneous spirit of nature.
Because Van Gogh was an Expressionistic painter, we know more about his internal life than we do about any of civilization's other Master painters. He alone has allowed us to peer into his mind, while he was in the act of creating his art.
Expressionistic form is defined by an obvious exaggeration of natural objects for the purpose of emphasizing an emotion, mood, or concept. It can better be understood as a more vehement kind of Romanticism.
The restlessness and commotion of the figures in the last reliefs are carried to a point which, though extreme, is not amenable to all "expressionistic" interpretation in the present sense of the term.
On the face of it, with the coming of Post Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism and other avant-garde movements, the new generation of colourful, expressionistic and abstract paintings seemed to contradict most, if not all, ...
We have looked at the first two: Expressionistic and Cubistic. Our third trend emereges during and after the First World War. A responce to the atrociity of the first mechanized war and a lose of faith in the rationality of mankind.
In the first half of the 18th century Alessandro Magnasco dominated painting with his strange personality, his nervous technique and his exaggerated chiaroscuro; his expressionistic distortions created a fantastic world reminiscent of Salvator Rosa, ...
Traditionally, the simplified geometry of Smith's monumental Cubi and Zig sculptures of the 1960s has been seen as a departure from the Surrealist and Expressionistic tendencies of his earlier work.
The expressionistic gesture and the act of painting itself, became of primary importance to Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline.
of the natural world, using dramatic lighting and a painting of grand scale. Joseph Turner's nature is also dramatic, but is more turbulent in his choice of a slave ship caught in a storm. His brushstrokes were also very thick and expressionistic.
 See also: Expressionist, Expression, Painting, Movement, Roman
  
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