Characteristics Of Expressionism. Expressionism is a modernist movement initially in poetry and painting. A high level of dissonance.

Angular melodies with wide leaps. Artificial sets with realistic details. Characteristics associated with German expressionism in its mature phase.
Expressionist art is similar to the Symbolist the scenes are eerie or nightmarish but you can tell them apart.
Dominant characteristics of Expressionism. Thereof what are the style of expressionism. Expressionist perspective similar to people and objects is distorted. Abstract Expressionism describes a style of abstract art developed by a group of primarily New York-based painters in the 1940s and 50s also known as the New York School.