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Home Dictionary Name: impressionablePost impressionism
In the broadest sense the theory or practice of any of several groups of painters of the early 1900s or of these groups taken collectively whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo impressionism In a strict sense the term post impressionism is used to denote the effort at self expression rather than representation shown in the work of Ceacutezanne Matisse etc but it is more broadly used to include cubism the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only and futurism a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions In practice these theories and methods of the post impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one ...
Impressionability
The quality of being impressionable...
Impressionable
Liable or subject to impression capable of being molded susceptible impressible as a bad influence on impressionable youths...
Impressionableness
The quality of being impressionable...
Cubism
A movement or phase in post impressionism which see below...
Futurism
A movement or phase of post impressionism which see below...
Impressionism
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...
Impressionist
One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism in art especially a painter who paints in the impressionistic style as the skyrocketing prices of paintings by the French impressionists...
Neoimpressionism
A theory or practice which is a further development on more rigorously scientific lines of the theory and practice of Impressionism originated by George Seurat 1859 91 and carried on by Paul Signac 1863 and others Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed This method is also known as Pointillism stippling...
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