impressionist
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- noun
- /ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst/
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impresionista
- Impressionist painters turned to the landscape of Paris, often emphasizing it over its human occupants.
- French impressionists
- impressionist paintings
- impressionist shows
Check Degas, check Remington, check all the impressionists.
- Check Degas, check Remington, check all the impressionists.
Examples
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She's been researching the work of a little-known American Impressionist for a client who owns several of his later paintings.
Fiction book (1999) -
Works by French Impressionist artists such as Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir became easily accessible.
Academic text (2015) -
The French impressionist movement was really ahead of its time.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now we were with the French impressionists of the late 19th century.
Fiction book (2001) -
I wanted to see the impressionists at the Metropolitan Museum.
Fiction book (1996) -
So this is Claude Monet, he's an Impressionist.
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I feel the results resemble a French impressionist's painting, specifically the work of Monet.
Academic text (1999) -
The painter, Berthe Morisot, was one of the Impressionists, and she was indeed married to the brother of the painter Manet.
Fiction book (1998) -
Claude Monet is often regarded as one of the most famous impressionists in art history.
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The gallery features an exhibition dedicated to the works of impressionists from the late 19th century.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
impressionist = impression (transparent) = impression + ist
The word is straightforwardly formed from the noun 'impression' plus the productive agent/affiliation suffix '-ist', so the meaning 'an artist associated with Impressionism' is predictable.
Etymology
Impressionist comes from impression, a word that once meant a mark made by pressing, like impress or press, and one popular story says the movement took its name from Monet's painting 'Impression, Sunrise'. Painters in the 1800s wanted to show the quick, changing effect of light, so an impressionist is an artist who paints those quick 'impressions' of a scene.