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Impressionist   /ɪmprˈɛʃənəst/  /ɪmprˈɛʃənɪst/   Listen
Impressionist

adjective
1.
Relating to or characteristic of Impressionism.  Synonym: impressionistic.
noun
1.
A painter who follows the theories of Impressionism.



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"Impressionist" Quotes from Famous Books



... "impressionist" school is now confined in a lunatic asylum. To all persons who visit him he says, "Look here; this is the latest masterpiece of my composition." They look, and see nothing but an expanse of bare canvas. They ask, "What ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... sheltered garden wall When the rain begins to fall, And the stormy winds do blow, You may see them in a row, Red effects and lake and yellow Getting nicely blurred and mellow. With the subtle gauzy mist Of the great Impressionist. Ask him how he chanced to find How to leave the French behind, And he answers quick and smart, "English climate's best ...
— Songs Of The Road • Arthur Conan Doyle
... and a consciousness of what others were doing, both around him and abroad. In its whole handling and character his late is different from his early manner. It begins at this time to take on a blurred, soft, impressionist character. His delight in rich colouring seems to wane, and he aims at intensifying the power of light. He reaches that point in the Venetian School of painting which we may regard as its climax, when there is little strong local colour, but the canvas seems illumined from within. ...
— The Venetian School of Painting • Evelyn March Phillipps
... Zola's most intimate friend—a companion of his boyhood and youth—was Paul Cezanne, a painter who developed talent as an impressionist; and the lives of Cezanne and Manet, as well as that of a certain rather dissolute engraver, who sat for the latter's famous picture Le Bon Bock, suggested to M. Zola the novel which he has called ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... and they both went speechless for the moment. The reverse of the scrap of cross-ruled paper held a very fair likeness of a face which Virginia's mirror had oftenest portrayed: a sketch setting forth in a few vigorous strokes of the pencil the impressionist's ideal of the "goddess fresh ...
— A Fool For Love • Francis Lynde


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