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Impressionism   /ɪmprˈɛʃənˌɪzəm/   Listen
Impressionism

noun
1.
A school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light.





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"Impressionism" Quotes from Famous Books



... poetry, so in pictorial art, the artist avoids giving full expression to his theme, and leaving nothing for the spectator to supply by his own imaginative powers. "Suggestion" is the key-note to both the above arts; and in both, "Impressionism" has been also at the command of the gifted, centuries before the term had ...
— The Civilization Of China • Herbert A. Giles


Words linked to "Impressionism" :   impressionistic, impressionist, art movement, artistic movement


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