expressionism

n.	1.	an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.
	2.	a genre of German painting that tried to show the subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes themselves.

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expressionism - an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality

abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, slanting, twisting, understatement

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