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Impressionism
(ɪmpreʃənɪzəm)
uncountable noun
Impressionism is a style of painting developed in France between 1870 and 1900 which concentrated on showing the effects of light on things rather than on clear and exact detail.
impressionism in British English
(ɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm)
noun
1. (often capital)
a movement in French painting, developed in the 1870s chiefly by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley, having the aim of objectively recording experience by a system of fleeting impressions, esp of natural light effects
2.
the technique in art, literature, or music of conveying experience by capturing fleeting impressions of reality or of mood
impressionism in American English
(ɪmˈprɛʃənˌɪzəm)
noun
[often I-]
a theory and school of painting exemplified chiefly by Monet, Pissarro, and Sisley, but also by Manet, Renoir, etc., whose chief aim is to capture a momentary glimpse of a subject, esp. to reproduce the changing effects of light by applying paint to canvas in short strokes of pure color
, the term has been extended to literature, as the fiction of Stephen Crane and VirginiaWoolf and imagist poetry, and to music, as by Debussy and Ravel, which seeks to renderimpressions and moods by various characteristic devicesWord origin
< Fr impressionisme, coined (1874) by Louis Leroy, Fr art critic, in adverse reaction to a Monet paintingentitled “Impression, sunrise”Image ofImpressionism
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