Get to know Impressionism better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Impressionism in a sentence
Impressionism meaning
- An art movement characterized by visible brushstrokes, ordinary subject matter, 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 portray the poet's impressions.
Synonyms of Impressionism
Using Impressionism
- The main meaning on this page is: An art movement characterized by visible brushstrokes, ordinary subject matter, 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 portray the poet's impressions.
- Useful related words include: artistic movement, art movement.
- In the example corpus, impressionism often appears in combinations such as: impressionism and, of impressionism, impressionism was.
Context around Impressionism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Impressionism
- In this selection, "impressionism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, musical, modern, moment, though, yet and tried stand out and add context to how "impressionism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include abstracts and impressionism always with and and modern impressionism. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "impressionism" sits close to words such as abominable, acolytes and acv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with impressionism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Faughnan focuses on acrylic paintings and modern impressionism. (8 words)
Nika’s style is best described as Figurative Impressionism. (9 words)
Everything you'd expect from an Impressionism exhibition is here. (10 words)
In 1905, Nathan bought an in the center of Paris to house Wildenstein & Co. He expanded into Renaissance art and Impressionism and, when his son, Georges — Daniel’s father — was old enough to join the business, a bit of Modernism. (40 words)
The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius is also associated with impressionism, and his The Swan of Tuonela (1893) predates Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (regarded as a seminal work of musical impressionism) by a year. (39 words)
Their exhibition is not a critical or commercial success, and is not held again – the society was dissolved the following year – but it would be later recorded as the moment impressionism was born. (33 words)
From A Flying Porsche To Impressionism: What Are London's Best Exhibitions On Right Now? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius is also associated with impressionism, and his The Swan of Tuonela (1893) predates Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (regarded as a seminal work of musical impressionism) by a year.
Faughnan focuses on acrylic paintings and modern impressionism.
In 1905, Nathan bought an in the center of Paris to house Wildenstein & Co. He expanded into Renaissance art and Impressionism and, when his son, Georges — Daniel’s father — was old enough to join the business, a bit of Modernism.
Nestled in the growing artistic hamlet of Provincetown, this institution quickly became a hub for Impressionism, though it wasn’t limited to this style alone.
Their exhibition is not a critical or commercial success, and is not held again – the society was dissolved the following year – but it would be later recorded as the moment impressionism was born.
Using illustrations from the Rusinko Kakos Collection, Thompson will explore the ways in which British painters embraced Impressionism’s interest in color, fleeting sensations, visible brushwork and modern subject matter.
And the score to “An American in Paris” asks an orchestra to turn on a dime from evocative impressionism à la Claude Debussy to a swinging big band of the Duke Ellington school.
Carrick (1872–1952) was a gifted painter and bold colourist, among the first artists to introduce Australians to post-impressionism – yet overshadowed by the achievements of her painter husband Emanuel Phillips Fox.
Later, currents such as Impressionism tried to capture what was changeable.
Everything you'd expect from an Impressionism exhibition is here.
Gale, meanwhile, leaning deeper into impressionism, is nonetheless affixed to an almost hallucinatory flora, really the perfect antidote to the cold spell we’ve finally popped into.
The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is known as the Home of American Impressionism.
Impressionism and other movements reached us 30 or 40 years late,” he said.
From A Flying Porsche To Impressionism: What Are London's Best Exhibitions On Right Now?
Nika’s style is best described as Figurative Impressionism.
She paints a wide range of subjects in a variety of styles, from meticulous realism to expressive abstracts and impressionism, always with an eye toward keeping things interesting.
Specializing in acrylic and oil paintings with styles including impressionism and German expressionism, Henderson featured a set of three oil canvas paintings of two female nude models.
Although these cases illustrate the difficulty of assigning labels, the work of the original Impressionist painters may, by definition, be categorised as Impressionism.
Both impressionism and modern realism were introduced to the stage during this period.
But Impressionism, and through it almost all of 20th-century art, is also firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition.
Common combinations with impressionism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- impressionism and 7×
- of impressionism 4×
- impressionism was 3×
- as impressionism 3×
- impressionism is 3×
- musical impressionism 2×
- and impressionism 2×
- to impressionism 2×
- impressionism in 2×