Crossword clues for impressionism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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.
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 the impressions of the composer 3 (context poetry English) a style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet's impressions
Wikipedia
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant ( Impression, Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.
The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.
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 called "impressionist" literature is actually subsumed into a number of categories, especially Symbolism; its chief exponents being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Laforgue. It focuses on a particular character's perception of events. The edges of reality are blurred by choosing points of view that lie outside the norm.
Category:Impressionism Category:Literary movements
Impressionism is an art movement. Other meanings include:
- Impressionism (literature)
- Impressionist music, the musical period
- Impressionist (entertainment), people who imitate famous figures
- The Impressionists (BBC drama), a series about the origins of the art movement
- Impressionists (video game)
- Impressionism (play) by Michael Jacobs
Impressionism is a 2009 play by Michael Jacobs about "an international photojournalist and a New York gallery owner whose unexpected brush with intimacy leads them to realize that there is an art to repairing broken lives."
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.