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UK
/ɪmpɹˈɛʃənˌɪzəm/
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[ US /ˌɪmˈpɹɛʃəˌnɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˌɪmˈpɹɛʃəˌnɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
How To Use Impressionism In A Sentence
- Though the modern art movements of impressionism, cubism, expressionism and abstract art have influenced urban art, what we see is not a made-in-India version of Western art.
- My fourth-graders had been studying painting periods such as Romanticism, impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstractionism and Surrealism.
- The Prelude for Orchestra opens slowly in a way that reminds us, if nothing else, of musical impressionism's roots in Wagner.
- His style, which he called neoplasticism, avoided both the reproduction of real objects or even filtered perceptions of real objects (as in impressionism).
- Their art style was bolder and more expressive than early impressionism.
- Her figures now show off curves as well as angles, and include touches of Impressionism as they pose, row boats and toddle babies across sandy beaches.
- The three "Nocturnal" pieces, each a different size with distinct proportions, depict three registers of texturally delineated landscape (rocky pier), seascape (bark-like waves) and night sky (studded with stars) are particularly satisfying -- minimal or abstract versions of a Van Gogh nocturne at the De Young Museum in the current Post-Impressionism show. ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See
- I usually prefer my words in neat parcels, bare little things that are scratched onto the page with a smack of impressionism.
- It is, in fact, one of the only unifying characteristics in this exhibition, which runs a gamut of genres from 17th-century Dutch memento mori to the above-named modern and postmodern artists; from Baroque painting to French Impressionism. ArtScene: Top Current Exhibitions in the Southwest (July/August, 2010)
- This composition anticipates Impressionism