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  1. Impressionism
    [literature] Influenced by the 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 i...
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  2. 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...
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  3. 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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  4. 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 ...
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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 aware...
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Impressionism
    Impressionism was 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 in spite of harsh opposition from the art community in France. The name of the style is derived from the title of a C...
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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 obje...
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  4. Impressionism
    In painting, impressionism is the attempt to reproduce a scene as it directly appeals to the eye, with all the transient effects of light and shade, and not as it reveals itself on closer and more prolonged study.
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  5. 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 life, to paint straight from nature, and to capture the changing effects of light. The term was first used...
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  6. Impressionism
    A style of painting that started in France during the 1860s. Impressionist artists tried to paint candid glimpses of their subjects showing the effects of sunlight on things at different times of day. The leaders of this movement were: Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), Edgar Degas (French, 1834-...
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  7. Impressionism
    A style of painting that originated in France about 1870. Paintings of casual subjects, executed outdoors, using divided brush strokes to capture the mood of a particular moment as defined by the transitory effects of light and color. The first Impressionist exhibit was held in 1874.
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  8. Impressionism
    A late-nineteenth-century French school of painting. It focused on transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and color. Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro were important impressionists.
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  9. Impressionism
    Loosely applied to a group of artists who purported to break up their color into pure dots of pigment to capture the rightness of pure color in nature. Instead of mixing their colors on the palette they expected the eyes to mix them on the canvas. Painters like Renoir, Degas, Monet, Pissaro, Seurat,...
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  10. Impressionism
    [disambiguation] Impressionism is an art movement. Other meanings include: ...
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  11. Impressionism
    [play] 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." ==Plot== The setting is the small art gallery of Katharine Ke...
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  12. impressionism
    1) Art movement 2) Artistic movement 3) Impressionism 4) Style of art monet is most known for
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