Until this period, Jewish names generally changed with every generation. For example, if Moses son of Mendel (Moyshe ben Mendel) married Sarah daughter of Rebecca (Sora bas Rifke), and they had a boy and named it Samuel (Shmuel), the child would be called Shmuel ben Moyshe.
Although the term abstract expressionism was first applied to American art in 1946 by the art critic Robert Coates, it had been first used in Germany in 1919 in the magazine Der Sturm, regarding German Expressionism.
Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality. Expressionism was developed as an avant-garde style before the First World War. It remained popular during the Weimar Republic, particularly in Berlin.The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music.heodor Adorno describes expressionism as concerned with the unconscious, and states that the depiction of fear lies at the centre of expressionist music, with dissonance predominating, so that the harmonious, affirmative element of art is banished (Adorno 2009, 275â76).