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Example sentences for "impressionist"

Lexicographically close words:
impressing; impression; impressionability; impressionable; impressionism; impressionistic; impressions; impressive; impressively; impressiveness
  1. But every romantic or impressionist painter who happened to be an artist also used form and colour as means of expressing and provoking pure aesthetic emotion.

  2. I am very fond of the work of many of the Impressionist painters of Paris and London.

  3. This is one of the most characteristic of the master's work out of Spain, and profoundly influenced Manet and the Modern Impressionist School.

  4. There was a Titian and a George Morland, a Chardin, two cows after Cooper, and an impressionist picture after some Frenchman whose name he had forgotten.

  5. Cezanne saw in a tree, a heap of apples, a human face, a group of bathing men or women, something more abiding than either photography or impressionist painting could present.

  6. For this reason Debussy is often classed with the Impressionist painters on the ground that he resembles these painters in using natural phenomena for the purposes of his art.

  7. A parallel course has been followed by the Impressionist movement in painting.

  8. In the meantime also it is important that his position should be recognized as a legitimate, almost inevitable outcome of Post-Impressionist tendencies.

  9. An impressionist sketch of Hecuba, crouching down and shrieking, and Thought, in marble, completed the record of this well-filled year.

  10. We should much prefer an impressionist word-picture or a subtle character-sketch.

  11. An Impressionist is a person who paints what other people think he sees.

  12. The work of the impressionist painter or the imagist poet illustrates this conception.

  13. If the border-foray of the impressionist or imagist proves successful, well and good, but a triumphant raid should not be mistaken for the steady lines of the main campaign.

  14. Every day, or almost every day, they met and went upon their painting expeditions and argued the point of the validity or otherwise of the impressionist doctrines of art.

  15. It was one of those very impressionist productions that faded away in the distance, and full of soft grey tints, such as his soul loathed.

  16. And no further hitch would have occurred had the Impressionist not made that surreptitious sketch of the Duke, which so delighted his friends.

  17. The Impressionist whipped out a pencil and bared a shirt-cuff.

  18. Then the Impressionist said thickly: "Give me that sketch.

  19. The Impressionist was the most remarkable-looking of all Lady Caroline's guests.

  20. The Impressionist grinned; his friend drank deep, with a corrugated brow; the poet expounded the beauties of the rough edge, and Jack gave him back his book.

  21. Universal ridicule only fortified the friendships and resolutions of this group of men, and from that time dates the definite foundation of the Impressionist school.

  22. We shall study in the next chapter his Neo-Impressionist comrades, and we shall now speak of some illustrators more advanced in years than he.

  23. Some years have been wasted by painters of little worth in imitating it, and the Salons, formerly encumbered with academic pastiches, have been encumbered with Impressionist pastiches.

  24. It should be added that, with the exception of Manet two years before his death, and Renoir last year at the age of sixty-eight, no Impressionist has been decorated by the French government.

  25. He is an artist who lives in Provence, away from the world; he is supposed to have served as model for the Impressionist painter Claude Lantier, described by Zola in his celebrated novel "L'Oeuvre.

  26. To conclude the enumeration of the obstacles, it must be added that there are hardly any photographs of Impressionist works in the market.

  27. Banished from the salons, exhibited in private galleries and sold direct to art lovers, the Impressionist works have been but little seen.

  28. Renoir's second manner is more directly related to the Impressionist methods: it is that of his landscapes, his flowers and his portraits.

  29. Durand-Ruel his due, to state that he was one of the first to anticipate the Impressionist school and to buy the first works of these painters, who were treated as madmen and charlatans.

  30. Durand-Ruel's show-rooms are the place where it is easiest to find numerous Impressionist pictures.

  31. The impressionist places himself over against some phenomenon as a mere sense, as photographer or phonographist, etc.

  32. The impressionist sees before him merely a mass of colour composed of spots of different greens, on which the sun flashes here and there points and rays of light.

  33. It begins at this time to take on a blurred, soft, impressionist character.

  34. He has not preserved the lovely, indeterminate colour or the impressionist touch which was the natural inheritance of Watteau or Tiepolo.

  35. There is the futurist, post-impressionist poseur who more than half believes in his own pose.

  36. There was once a post-impressionist exhibition at the Liberal Club, and a certain young man who shall be nameless was placed in charge of it.

  37. To be an impressionist opens a good wide space for leaving a good deal that is difficult to do undone—at least so it seems to me.

  38. They are quite distinct from the explanation often advanced for the primitive simplificatory character of Post-Impressionist art.

  39. Practically the whole of English late twentieth-century art is derived from Constable and from the French Barbizon and Impressionist schools, and is inferior to it.

  40. We cannot infer from Renoir's objection to the indiscriminate realism of the later impressionist doctrine that he was in favour of Cubism, for Cubism was not at the time under discussion.

  41. Woe to them that cannot distinguish the light of either!

  42. Had your master himself been here," said he, "I should not have forgotten that in my person the dignity of France is represented.

  43. On quitting this congress Napoleon was careful to resume, in every particular, the appearance of a private citizen.

  44. Nor was he without a feasible pretext for this rapidity.

  45. Before he could act again, he had much to observe; and he knew himself too well to be flattered by the stare either of mobs or of saloons.

  46. Venice herself, and her Italian provinces, were handed over to the emperor in lieu of his lost Lombardy; and the French assumed the sovereignty of the Ionian islands and Dalmatia.

  47. But Mr. Hassam, at his best, is a designer with a sense of balance and of classic grace almost equal to that of Corot, and he often uses the impressionist method to express otherwise the delicate shimmer of thin foliage that Corot loved.

  48. For to the true Impressionist light and atmosphere are the only realities, and objects exist only to provide surfaces for the play of light and atmosphere.

  49. Among those of our painters who have adopted and retained the impressionist technic, with its hatching of broken colors, the two most notable are Mr. Hassam and Mr. Weir.

  50. Their perplexity cannot have been greatly lessened by the receipt of a catalogue bearing this title: "Catalogue of the Exposition of Pictures of the Impressionist and Syntheticist Group, held on the Premises of M.

  51. A year later we find Huysmans complaining of the low and muddy color of his pictures; another proof that the painter was already trying to mass tones, to escape from the division of tones employed by the Impressionist group.

  52. In 1886 he contributed no less than nineteen pictures to an exhibition of the Impressionist group, together with a relief in wood, which seems to foreshadow the later creator of La Guerre et la Paix.

  53. Paul Cezanne, the hermit of Aix, had faced the problem of painting with the Impressionist palette while preserving the mass structure of his true spiritual ancestors--the Venetians and El Greco.

  54. He had abolished Impressionist science and had sought to restore art to its primitive condition, revealing in the process the inexhaustible strength and vitality of peasant and popular art.

  55. This very nude, however, shows Gauguin massing his shadows, making them heavy and dark, which was the direct contrary to Impressionist practice.

  56. He is ranked with Manet as the leader of the "impressionist school.

  57. At the eighth Impressionist Exhibition, in 1886, Degas continued his realistic studies of modern life, showing drawings of the nude, of workwomen, and of jockeys.

  58. Several of his works may be seen at the Luxembourg Gallery, to which they were bequeathed, among a collection of impressionist pictures, by M.

  59. Mathematics has become an impressionist art, and love, birth, and death are treated arithmetically.

  60. I once wrote in the Promenades of an Impressionist that his fruits and vegetables savour of the earth.

  61. As it was, he sat in the veranda of the hotel and made impressionist sketches of dragomen, camels, and the backsheesh-begging Bedouins of the Pyramids.

  62. Meanwhile Fensden smoked innumerable cigarettes, composed fin-de-siecle poems in her honour, and made a number of impressionist studies of her head that his friends declared would eventually astonish artistic London.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impressionist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.