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Warner Brothers Studio lot, Burbank, California
Warner Brothers Summary
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Expressionism Summary
Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid,