These include impressionism and the modernist styles of expressionism, abstract painting and surrealism. Her art deco style looked anachronistic in the period of postwar modernism and abstract expressionism. In Europe, the 1920s were the era of expressionism and later surrealism. The reductive philosophies of minimalism, spontaneous improvisation, and expressivity of Abstract expressionism characterized the works. Strong elements of monumentalism and modernism appear throughout the canon of German Expressionism. The films of German expressionism owe a great deal to symbolist imagery. Zane is also a painter whose art style is that of abstract expressionism. Also, Bertolucci's cinematic style synthesizes expressionism and "fascist" film aesthetics. Other influences came from the Art Deco movement and German Expressionism. They appear to be a pop art version of abstract expressionism or color field painting. While at college, Shepard became enamored of Samuel Beckett, jazz, and abstract expressionism. The Bay Area was a hub of the Abstract Expressionism movement of painting. Whale was heavily influenced by German Expressionism. "Abstract Expressionism&colon; The International Context". At times deconstructivism mirrors varieties of expressionism, neo-expressionism, and abstract expressionism as well.