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impressionism
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Definition:a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting 1: by Claude Monet (1872),painting 2: by Marie Bracquermond (1880),
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George: [admiring Baldrick's painting] Well, Private Baldrick is obviously some kind of an impressionist.
Blackadder: The only decent impression he can do is of a man with no talent. What's it called Baldrick? "The Vomiting Cavalier"?
BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Captain Cook
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he would take a little servant-girl to a screened box in a theatre where there was some decadent piece which he had wished to see performed, or to an exhibition of impressionist painting, with the conviction, moreover, that an educated, ‘society’ woman would have understood them no better, but would not have managed to keep quiet about them so prettily.Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
also in proust 2,3,4,5
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The fancy restaurant in Hollywood with prints of the French Impressionists behind the bar, where they served it in frosted mugs and charged seventy-five cents a bottle.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.292 (1948)
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The count and her father took her to a small gallery to sneer at the works of certain artists who painted not realistically but to create their "impression" of a scene.
John Jakes. The Gods of Newport, p.392 (2006)
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