Look up: Impressionism

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   Impressionism
   The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light. Impressionism, French Impressionnisme, a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artist...
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   Impressionism
   [n] - 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
   Art style developed in France where artists like Degas, Monet, Pissaro and Renoir painted images of their subjects showing the effects of colour, sunlight and shade on things at different times of day. The artists dissected light into its component colours. Each artist concentrated on light and the way it effected the visible world. Short brush-strokes of bright colour were chosen to represent light which was then broken down into its spectrum components and re-combined by the eyes into another colour when viewed at a distance.Current British Artists showing at Red Rag Modern British Art Gallery and painting in this style include Romeo di Girolamo.
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   Impressionism
   Movement in painting that originated in France in the 1860s and had enormous influence in European and North American painting in the late 19th century. The Impressionists wanted to depict real...
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   Impressionism
   a late 19th-century art movement, centered in France, and characterized by its use of discontinuous strokes of color meant to reproduce the effects of light.
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   Impressionism
   New way of painting landscape and scenes of everyday life developed in France by Monet and others from early 1860s. Based on practice of painting finished pictures out of doors, as opposed to simply making sketches (actually pioneered in Britain by Constable around 1813-17). Result was greater awareness of light and colour and the shifting pattern ...
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   Impressionism
   Im·pres'sion·ism noun [ French 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.
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   Impressionism
   noun 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
   `Impressionism` was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, `Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)`, which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in `Le Charivari`. Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible b...
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    Impressionism
    • (n.) 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.
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    Impressionism
    a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist ... [55 related articles]
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    Impressionism
    A term usually applied in painting when painters were interested in the transitory effects of light and shade and the short-lived impressions they experienced. So their point of view is rather subjective.
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    impressionism
    impressionism, in music, a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th cent. It was begun by Debussy in reaction to the dramatic and dynamic emotionalism of romantic music, especially that of Wagner. Reflecting the impressionist schools of French painting and letters, Debussy developed a style i...
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    Impressionism
    As a general artistic movement, the theory that art should strive only to reveal the felt quality of an object, scene, or event; i.e. the total effect that it creates in the artist. Specifically in painting, the general idea underling practice is to render the immediate visual appearance of the object, independently of its physical structure and i...
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