Words: miserabilism
Part of speech: n
Definition: mid-20th century French art movement.
Example: Along with the briefly popular painters of a style known as Miserabilism in the early 1950s, Buffet's pictures were easily digestible accompaniments to the existential revulsion described in Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea (La Nausée), 1938, and the fiction of Albert Camus, melded with the sordid underbelly of Georges Simenon's detective stories.