impressionism

Definition of Impressionism in English :

Noun

1. impressionism

a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Impressionism

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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

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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 Virginia Woolf and imagist poetry, and to music, as by Debussy and Ravel, which seeks to render impressions and moods by various characteristic devices

Impressionism

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n.

1. often Impressionism A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual impression produced by a scene and by the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.

2. A literary style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than the re-creation of objective reality.

3. Music A style of art music of the late 1800s and early 1900s, often evoking a dreamy mood and characterized by modal or whole-tone scales, rich and often dissonant harmonies in unconventional progressions, and the avoidance of traditional forms.

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