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Meaning of IMPRESSIONISM

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 Definition: [n]  a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
 
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 See Also: art movement, artistic movement

 

 

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Impressionism
Part of a series devoted to looking at artists, images, and movements in their fuller historical and ideological context.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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