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impressionistic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | impressionist |
| Derivation | impression, impressionism |
impressionistic:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | impression |
a surprisingly impressionistic review bearing marks of hasty composition.
she had impressionistic memories of her childhood.
Examples of impressionistic
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Impressionistic shapes in pale, pale colors pretend to be the Manhattan skyline.
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Guilfoyle's Guile is a delicate rumination over more impressionistic percussion.
From the guardian.co.uk
Images of Claude Debussy, impressionistic and moody, created a musical tapestry.
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Joshua by Tamara Scantland Adams is an impressionistic portrait of a young man.
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The music meditates on Celtic mythology through five impressionistic movements.
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The effect was mainly impressionistic-he did it without offering any new details.
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Those participating will paint large and fast in a post-impressionistic style.
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It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal.
From the time.com
His films are all, to one degree or another, impressionistic biographical diaries.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning; "a surprisingly impressionistic review bearing marks of hasty composition"; "she had impressionistic memories of her childhood"
- (impressionism) a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
- (Impressionism (music)) 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. ...
- (Impressionism (play)) 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."
- (Impressionist) 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. ...
- (impressionism) 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 ...
- (Impressionism) 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 ...
- (Impressionism) 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. ...
- (Impressionism) Loose spontaneous style developed in the late 19th century in France, in which artists tried to capture their impressions of light and shade.
