"I would call his style expressive realism".
Gerhaert had myriad followers, and the expressive realism of his style influenced many of his contemporaries.
Castagno's emotionally expressive realism was strongly influenced by Donatello, Domenico, and perhaps Piero della Francesca, and Castagno's work in turn influenced succeeding generations of Florentine painters, including Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Sandro Botticelli.
The refinement of this ability to work on individual parts allowed for remarkable detail and expressive effects, enhancing the meticulous realism characteristic of Kamakura sculpture.
In several spontaneous sketches, succeeding where he had failed in his heroic pictures, he synthesized dynamic elements of the 17th-century Baroque style with an uncompromising realism and fully expressive handling of the paint.
The heightened sense of realism, the more expressive faces, and the more rounded, three-dimensional forms, particularly as seen in the north-side tableau of the death of Shaka, suggest an assimilation of Chinese Tang dynasty (618 907) style.
He was familiar with the new realism, exquisite detail and expressive intensity of Robert Campin and especially Jan van Eyck.
Solzhenitsyn was essentially an old-fashioned artist working within the conventions of the 19th century novel, but the pressure of his extreme subject matter, the passion and discipline he brought to his craft, and the exigencies of the times helped him to stretch the boundaries of Russian realism and find new expressive possibilities for it.
Mr. Xie also shies away from photo-realism, favoring a more expressive style: you can read the words on the papers, but you can also see his brush strokes.
This admonition is ignored by Tura, whose model, rendered with almost brutal realism, was selected for his expressive power rather than his pleasing features.
Following controlled Realism, the more sensitive and expressive Romanticism entered the limelight, and after that, a veritable shitload of other -isms appeared.
