Example Sentences

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“She was influenced by abstract expressionism, and she was influenced by the people at the time who were also painting in the neo-expressionist movement,” Casselli said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2025

They first worked together during the ’80s market boom, when New York had a frenzied interest in German neo-expressionist painters like Georg Baselitz and Jörg Immendorff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2016

This neo-expressionist series offers a promising new angle for Deardourff’s investigation of the comics universe.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2015

So many of the dance, theater and opera works onstage today owe an often sizable debt to Bausch and her pioneering style of the neo-expressionist genre known as tanztheater, or dancetheater.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2010

The language is neo-expressionist, with clusters featuring prominently, and vocal writing that ranges between speech and declamation and the most taxing coloratura.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2010