Definition of Impressionism. Meaning of Impressionism. Synonyms of Impressionism

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Definition of Impressionism

Impressionism
Impressionism Im*pres"sion*ism, n. [F. 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.

Meaning of Impressionism from wikipedia

- Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate...
- Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last...
- Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned...
- Impressionism in music was a movement among various composers in Western classical music (mainly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries) whose...
- impressionism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Impressionism is an art movement. Impressionism or Impressionist may also refer to: Impressionism (literature)...
- Literary Impressionism is influenced by the European Impressionist art movement; as such, many writers adopted a style that relied on ****ociations. The...
- Pennsylvania Impressionism was an American Impressionist movement of the first half of the 20th century that was centered in and around Bucks County,...
- American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth...
- Impressionism Boston School California Impressionism Decorative Impressionism Pennsylvania Impressionism Post-Impressionism Synthetic impressionism The...
- Abstract Impressionism is an art movement that originated in New York City, in the 1940s. It involves the painting of a subject such as real-life scenes...