impressionist style
Brushy, light-dappled paintings
Impressionist style refers to art characterized by visible brushstrokes, emphasis on light and its changing qualities, and ordinary subject matter captured as if in a fleeting moment.
The term comes from the 19th-century French painters but extends to music, literature, and other arts that favor suggestion and atmosphere over precise detail: The film has an impressionist style—more mood than plot.
- MonetFrench Impressionist surname
- water liliesAquatic flowering pond plants
- RenoirFrench Impressionist master
- DegasFrench Impressionist's surname
- stream of consciousnessNarrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
Ravel · Cézanne · Virginia Woolf · Modernism · Romanticism · James Joyce · Marcel Proust · Gertrude Stein · Sofia Coppola · Gauguin · en plein air · dappled light · art nouveau · Colette · soft focus · brushwork · fleeting moment · Debussy
impressionist stylephotorealism
Art imitating camera accuracy
hyperrealism · hard-edge painting · trompe l'oeil · naturalism · smooth finish
impressionist styleneoclassical style
Movement mimicking antiquity's aesthetics
impressionist styleconceptual art
Work valuing notion over form
social realism · illustration style · abstract expressionism · minimalism
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