Sentence examples for drew on expressionist from inspiring English sources
Such filmmaking techniques drew on expressionist themes.
Masereel's books drew strongly on Expressionist theatre and film in their exaggerated but representational artwork with strong contrasts of black and white.
After childhood ballet classes, she went on to the Folkwang school in Essen, headed by Kurt Jooss, who drew on the concept of Ausdruckstanz, the expressionist dance that had flourished in pre-war Germany.
His work drew on traditional portraiture and folk art; it was not Abstract Expressionist, though many of his friends painted in that style.
The decor and costumes, by Scott Pask and Ann Hould Ward, respectively, are German Expressionist in feel, while the music and lyrics, by John Kander and Fred Ebb — this was their final collaboration, in 2001 — sometimes reminded me of another place altogether: the nineteen-twenties Chicago that Kander and Ebb drew on so evocatively in "Chicago" (1975), which also starred Rivera.
When the German expressionist Ludwig Kirchner painted himself as a wounded soldier with a severed hand in 1915 – his real injuries were mental, not physical – he drew on the legacy of Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear to create a study in shell shock.
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Visually, Murnau draws on sources that range from medieval tapestry through Rembrandt etchings to Expressionist paintings and sculpture, constantly varying the look of the film according to its tone.
To a narrative that itself draws on a tradition of avenger heroes in foppish disguise stemming from Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel, they have added elements from sources ancient and modern, among them Fritz Lang's expressionist thrillers, Da Vinci Code conspiracies, kung fu flicks and Bond movies.
