Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of six programs for the coming year includes, in addition to American comedy, German expressionist pictures, realistic movies of the German director Pabst and the Russian Pudovkin. French satire, and modern documentary films...
...suddenly developed a subconscious itch. High priest of the cult was Viennese Psychologist Sigmund Freud, who had taken the human mind apart and discovered that a lot of its thinking was controlled by buried childhood memories. Surrealism was not yet fashionable. But writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, "expressionist" painters like Max Ernst and Vassily Kandinsky were already scratching their nether brains, hypnotizing themselves into trances, trying to get their inchoate feelings into print and paint...
...rewrite man, Copeland Burg will still get up every morning at 5, work till 2 p.m. In his spare time, which does not belong to Mr. Hearst, he will paint still life and landscapes in his flat, expressionist style...