[f. as prec. + -IST.] An artist whose work aims chiefly at ‘expression.’ Also attrib.
1850. Times, 6 May, 5/1. The Expressionists (if we may coin such a term) are on their way backwards from Raphael to Masaccio.
1850. Tait’s Mag., XVII. July, 394/2. As the expressionist school of modern painters rebuke the richness of the colourists.
1880. C. Rowley, Jun. in Papers Manch. Lit. Club, VI. 184. The expressionists … who undertake to express special emotions or passions.
