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A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, esp. in terms of the shifting effect of light and color,
  1. A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, esp. in terms of the shifting effect of light and color

  2. A literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction

  3. A style of composition (associated esp. with Debussy) in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the whole-tone scale

  1. a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
  2. (impressionist) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism; "impressionist music"
  3. Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. ...
  4. 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. ...
  5. The impressionist movement in music was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France, that began in the late nineteenth century and continued into the middle of the twentieth century. ...
  6. Impressionism is an original 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."
  7. (Impressionists (video game)) Les impressionnistes (Impressionists) is an educational video game released in 1997. The game focused on was developed by the French developer Index+ as a co-production with Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
  8. a movement in art characterized by visible brush strokes, ordinary subject matters, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities; a style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke the impressions of the composer; a style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet' ...
  9. (Impressionistic) Eschews traditional screenwriting convention, seeking instead to weave seemingly disparate moments into a unified, effective whole.
  10. (Impressionists) A group of artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who paid special attention to light and its effect on subjects in their paintings.
  11. (Impressionists) Comedians who do immitations of other people
  12. 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.
  13. An art movement beginning in France in the 1870's, founded by an individualistic group of artists including, among others, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro; all concerned themselves mainly with the components of light and the immediate visual impression of a scene ...
  14. Impressionism began as an artistic movement, and was used to describe a style of art which was designed to convey an impression rather than a literal depiction of the scene. ...
  15. An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist artists sought to break up light into its component colors and render its ephemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. ...
  16. a loose spontaneous style of painting that originated in France about 1870. 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 ...
  17. Loose spontaneous style developed in the late 19th century in France, in which artists tried to capture their impressions of light and shade.
  18. Impressionism is referred to as the most important art movement of the 19th century. The term impressionism came from a painting by Claude Monet. His painting was titled titled Impression Sunrise. Impressionism is about capturing fast fleeting moments with color, light, and surface.
  19. French 19th century art movement that tried to use contemporary scientific research into the physics of color to achieve more exact representation of color and tone. ...
  20. A form of jazz involving collective improvisation in which the musicians often forego their standard ensemble roles and instead contribute whatever the music seems to need in the moment
  21. Impressionism attempted to catch and reflect momentary impressions with great accuracy. Changes of natural light appeared in richness of colours and delicacy never witnessed before. ...
  22. This style evolved in France in the 1860s and 1870s and influenced the art of almost all European countries and North America. ...
  23. a movement in painting that flourished in the mid- to late-nineteenth century in France, characterized by its practitioners’ interest in recording the visual aspects of things under different conditions of atmosphere and lighting, and marked often by a visibly gestural handling of media and ...
  24. Impressionists shared a style of painting that did not hide the brushstroke nor blobs of paint on the surface. To them, light was even more important than it had been to the earlier Luminists. ...
  25. a movement in art beginning in France in the 1880s, in which visible brush strokes, an emphasis on light, a sense of movement and the depiction of ordinary objects were characteristic