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What does expressionism mean?

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Noun
  1. A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences
  2. A somewhat analogous genre in early 20th century music
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But can the highest form of expressionism really be the exteriorizing, or soliloquizing, of inner, realistic psychological states?
Gone, too, were the essentially macho male connotations which had informed abstract expressionism, to be replaced by a new lyricism.
Gary Engle, a self-taught artist, explains that the heart of his portfolio consists of images of nature that lean toward abstract expressionism.
On abstract expressionism, I think that its debt to surrealism was largely formal or technical.
This is weird, transgressive, mind-bending cinema, reminiscent of silent-era German expressionism, and seasoned with Hollywood musical parody.
In its five galleries, the museum hosts exhibits ranging from cowboy art to abstract expressionism.

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