expressionism

expressionism
    n 1: 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
    

expressionism \expressionism\ n.
   1. an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's
      subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   2. a genre of German painting that tried to show the
      subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes
      themselves.
      [WordNet 1.5] expressionist
    

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "expressionism":
      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