expressionist
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In 1952, Greenspan married an abstract expressionist artist named Joan Mitchell and soon came under the intellectual sway of one of her acquaintances, Ayn Rand, author of “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Not everything is abstract, nor is everything expressionist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
"This transition phase is defined in particular by the tension between the meticulously detailed and naturalist figure" of the prince and the "vibrant, almost expressionist rendering of the background", he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
Mitchell, who would've been 100 this year, was one of the most celebrated artists of the abstract expressionist movement.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025
For some reason I think about Jacoba Van Heemskerck, a Dutch expressionist painter I’ve become interested in lately.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
