There was also a large light green summer landscape – an experiment in impressionism – but thin and plain as far as colouring went.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jenny: A Novel] Reference

impressionism; impressionism is to painting what friggin 'Yanni is to classical music.    From Wordnik.com.  [unbillable hours:] Reference

This is what has come to be known as impressionism, i.e., a painterly illusion - ism that turns up in very different forms and in very different degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATURALISM IN ART] Reference

That is really what is meant by "impressionism" in poetry carried to its highest excellence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892] Reference

Any particular style, such as impressionism, is a temporary stage, a partial equilibrium in a long his - torical process.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

And yet her freeflowing paintings show elements of major European art movements such as impressionism, cubism, even surrealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Painter's free-flowing works rooted in Chinese tradition] Reference

It is more in harmony with the psychology of these naïve minds to assume simply an extreme state of "impressionism," explicable by the logic of feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

BENNETT: It's an interpretation and I like impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2004] Reference

So what better way can you think of than abstract impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 15, 2008] Reference

I like impressionism. (shrug) My, Monet's flowers sure are pretty.    From Wordnik.com.  [evolver Diary Entry] Reference

Which is weird, cause I do one liner's like van Gogh does impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [youneverwin Diary Entry] Reference

Twachtman has a something "plus" to contribute to his excursions into impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

Abstract impressionism is fine as far as it goes, but here it's simply unsatisfying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Takers] Reference

What by night had looked like inspired impressionism looked like silly fakery by day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

They produced several new styles, which can be regarded as variants of impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

Away from the crowds, Honfleur has a museum with samples of impressionism in Normandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Boudin: The Man Who Inspired Monet] Reference

These will be called in the present article Types One and Two of pictorial impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

The leaders of impressionism in the eighteen - seventies differed considerably as individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

For here both their artistic impressionism and their mystic spirituality found a congenial soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

(N.Y. Times) Warning: Rambling thoughts and impressionism obsession are early signs of heatstroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

But impressionism has opened up a view from which much interesting matter for art is to be gleaned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference

Eugene Boudin, a forerunner of impressionism, is not that well-known, either in the U.S. or in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Boudin: The Man Who Inspired Monet] Reference

But they are seldom free from a certain tiresome impressionism -- and often make quite undue pretensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

The characteristics most commonly associated with the name “impressionism” are those of Claude Monet.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

Turner's painting of light and the more recent examples of impressionism afford abundant examples of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

He had a grander purpose: to reclaim painting from both the academy grown rigid and impressionism gone soft.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Of Apples] Reference

No doubt the modellers made use of the skill they had acquired in the practice of the older art of rough impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

In the towns just east of the D-Day beaches, French artists launched the 19th century revolution that became impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Boudin: The Man Who Inspired Monet] Reference

This is the true impressionism -- a system to which Fuller was always constant in later life, and which he developed grandly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference

The sunrises and nymphals no longer deceived anybody, having fallen nearly to the average level of auction-room impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

Academy, which position was occupied by a far inferior artist who was likewise carried away by impressionism, namely Alden Weir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference

The word “impressionism” is applied to a style of painting which flourished, especially in France, during the eighteen-seventies.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

| Reply | Permalink that was actually a patronizing statement for Southerners -- almost as bad as Hillary's Selma black impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Hillary And Obama Both Trouncing Rudy In New York] Reference

In selling himself as a candidate to the American public he is a gifted bargainer beautifully turned out in post-racial impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sotomayor and the Politics of Race] Reference

The concept of impressionism was later extended to somewhat analogous styles in other arts, including sculpture, music, and literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

During the eighteen-eighties it developed along divergent lines which led to post-impressionism and various twen - tieth-century styles.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

It's a smart, concise and tangy sampling of French art during the decades when realism was giving way to the precursors of impressionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference

The show traces Gauguin's development, from early experiments with impressionism through to his final emphasis on intense blocks of color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portraits With a Pop Sensibility] Reference