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I'm to continue retaining one - then I'm adopting second artistic style
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impressionism
Word definitions for impressionism in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Influenced by the European Impressionist art movement, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations. The Dutch Tachtigers explicitly tried to incorporate impressionism into their prose, poems, and other literary works. Much of what has been ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context arts English) a movement in art characterized by visible brush strokes, ordinary subject matters, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities 2 (context music English) a style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839 as a term in philosophy, from impression + -ism . Specifically with reference to the French art movement from 1882, from impressionist .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impressionism \Im*pres"sion*ism\, n. [F. impressionnisme.] (Fine Arts) The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The challenge to academic painting that impressionism posed was a challenge both in form and in content.
Usage examples of impressionism.
It begins as far back as impressionism, which deconstructs the realistic image of the romantics, and then you get Freud's discovery of the unconscious, he points out that we are not victorian ladies and gentlemen but dark thoughts split behind our eyelids, that we are obsessed with sexuality, with fecal matter -- you know the list.
Impressionism is the art of tricking the eye into seeing shadows by using complementary colors to increase contrast rather than using the black shadows and the white light of the old masters.
She held my hand as she talked about the Renaissance and Impressionism, perspective and proportion, brushes and palette knives, and the artists and the interesting lives they lived.