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Synthetism
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1. synthetism
a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas
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Synthetism
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(often capital)
the symbolism of Gauguin and the Nabis, who reacted against the impressionists and realists by seeking to produce brightly coloured abstractions of their inner experience
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