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expressionate

an expressionate is part of the way you portray yourself to others

i could tell what you were thinking by your expressionate smile / i wish i wasn't so expressionate

by yo boss August 22, 2006

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Abstract Expressionism

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an “artistic” movement reflective of post-WWII America’s industrial dominance. Just as GM was able to slap together shitty cars & dump them on the “free” world, American "artists" figured they could slap any shit they wanted onto a canvas & declare it artistically "relevant". As the philosopher P.T. Barnum observed, a sucker’s born every minute, & so the shit sold.

A major reason these artists sucked was they couldn’t stay inside the lines. They side-stepped this seeming career-killer by ignoring the lines & marketing themselves as rebellious, anarchic, idiosyncratic & nihilistic which explains A LOT about why the “art” looks the way it does… when you set out to paint shit, you end up with art that looks like shit.

Eventually the art world caught on to the scam, forcing the “artistes” to rebrand themselves as trailblazers in other bogus schools like “Post-painterly Abstraction”, “Color Field Painting”, “Lyrical Abstraction”, “Action Painting”, “Minimal Art”, “Post-minimalism”, & eventually some crap labeled "Neo-expressionism", a style so insignificant it barely escaped the late-70s. Given the paucity of talent in the artists who inspired them (e.g., Amedeo Modigliani, Max Jacob) it’s no wonder their works have the aesthetic appeal of a dog’s breakfast. Truth be told, most were frustrated poseurs who couldn't handle composition & perspective, & burned out on cocaine in the 70s to escape their anger at just missing the free-love movement of the 60s.

Chip: Hey, Dale. I didn’t know Hunter S. Thompson did Abstract Expressionism painting… hope you didn’t spend much on that piece of crap you hung in the foyer.

Dale: I’ll have you know that’s a Michael Petroni… one of Neo-expressionism’s finest artistes!

Chip: If that’s the good stuff, save me from the rest of it. And hang that monstrosity somewhere else, like the attic.

by Helmut MeinschaftgefĂĽlenberger July 19, 2010

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Hotel Expressionism

Far different from vandalism (such as throwing a television out of the window by its cord), but serious irrepairable structural damage to a Hotel Room. Generally associated with personal injury, destruction of personal property and/or inebriation. Essentially, general mayhem.

"Sorry about the bill for that Hotel Expressionism last night, but I'm an artist you know."

or

"Nice use of the minibar last night in your Hotel Expressionism exhibit"

by Matt Yee April 17, 2006

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URBAN EXPRESSIONISM

A simplistic yet profound artistic style, and movement, in Art which speaks with the deliberate position of using art as a communicative tool. It is an art-form in which art and communication could reasonably merge and become one flesh; through the use of flowing brushstrokes, markings, words, text, signs, and symbols

Did you see that painting in the other gallery? It had that way cool and urban flow style with the words and symbols in it? It looks simple but it makes you think Is it Jean-Micheli Basquiat? Not, it is URBAN EXPRESSIONISM

by Dune-Micheli Patten June 8, 2007

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Vandal Expressionism

VANDAL EXPRESSIONISM is a style of hieroglyphic fine art graffiti; a 21st-century take on the spirit of New York School Abstract Expressionism, filtered through pop art and reinterpreted in a cryptic graffiti language of its own.

Q: Hey, have you heard of Vandal Expressionism?

A: Why yes! I certainly have heard of Vandal Expressionism. I just became a fan of their page on facebook

by GrishaGrisha November 20, 2010


anti-expressionism

the opposite of expressionism.

George needs to drink less so he can remember the definitions to the words he makes up, like anti-expressionism.

by not kenna. February 24, 2003

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abstract expressionism

A skilless form of "art" in which people carelessly slap shitty brushstrokes and color together in a random fashion. Abstract expressionists would have you believe that there is some sort of deeper meaning to their "paintings" than just a ridiculous decadence of actual art (which there isn't).

People like Jackson Pollock and Hans Hofmann grew rich off of people who have no actual understanding of art through the use of abstract expressionism in their paintings.

by Rpg August 29, 2006

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