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Example sentences for "impressionistic"

Lexicographically close words:
impression; impressionability; impressionable; impressionism; impressionist; impressions; impressive; impressively; impressiveness; impressment
  1. Literature and life surround us with increasing specializations in personalities, but attempts at classification are still in the impressionistic stage.

  2. Many recent attempts at classification of temperaments rest upon as impressionistic a basis as the popular fourfold division into sanguine, melancholic, choleric, and phlegmatic.

  3. Even historic accounts and impressionistic observations of art and ornament, decoration and dress, indicate the relation of these material trappings to the self-consciousness of the individual in his social milieu.

  4. The rain mutters and the pavements, like darkened mirrors, grow alive with impressionistic cartoons of the city.

  5. But we are informed that this is an impressionistic interpretation of a sunset at sea, and we are expected to stand before it and carry on regardless.

  6. The Futurists ought to make quite a number of converts in this country, especially among those advanced lovers of art who are beginning to realize that the old impressionistic school lacked emphasis and individuality in its work.

  7. It was far more concentrated than the mid-century work, but it was much more given to general description and background effects and impressionistic characterization.

  8. A picture of summer it is for the most part painted lavishly with adjectives, and presented with impressionistic rather than realistic effect.

  9. Maybe, my last studies are not impressionistic at all, but that I cannot help.

  10. And as for his purely impressionistic period, pictures of this stage of his development abound.

  11. But there is one thing that this impressionistic school of medicine has in common with the other kind.

  12. The smooth-faced physician represents the buoyant, the romantic, what one might almost call the impressionistic strain in the medical profession.

  13. The people in his dramatic monologues live before us by means of a psychology as impressionistic as that of Ibsen's in his plays.

  14. The effect is the same as that in a really great impressionistic painting.

  15. Edith was not a vain woman, not even much interested in dress, though she had a quick eye and a sure impressionistic gift for it.

  16. RLINE" we read in wobbly reversed letters, and beneath, floundering desperately across a shoulder blade, a stub-tailed mermaid could be discerned in the act of disappearing into the impressionistic but unmistakable head of a dolphin.

  17. You fellows are going wild over this new French impressionistic craze--the vague, the mysterious, and the suggestive.

  18. The Athenæum further says: "His is not at all the impressionistic method.

  19. Probably the impressionistic method is merely any method that the Athenæum doesn't like.

  20. The partisan of expression becomes the thrall of his impressions so that the whole Rousseauistic conception may be termed indifferently impressionistic or expressionistic.

  21. Of recent days the impressionistic view of light and color has had its influence; but the Italian work at its best is below that of France.

  22. But where the light came from a source at right angles to the line of vision, the expression reverted to an intensification of the Impressionistic method.

  23. Renoir, the greatest exponent of Impressionistic means, found his artistic stride only in his old age, after a long and arduous life of study and experimenting.

  24. The Neo-Impressionistic methods have no such subtleties.

  25. Although for two years he had used Impressionistic methods, it was through this picture that Delacroix introduced him to the Impressionists' colour.

  26. Sisley was the last of the original five to adopt Impressionistic methods.

  27. One of the most noted followers of the Neo-Impressionistic methods was the Hollander, Vincent van Gogh.

  28. Renoir, first of all, was not an innovator: he was the consummation of Impressionistic means.

  29. With Matisse's advent we behold the paradox of an artist who is in full reaction against the Impressionistic and classic doctrines and who at the same time reveals a certain composition and makes colour of paramount interest.

  30. Here he gathered about him many of the painters he had known before, as well as some new ones, and formed a group of young men who were ready to react against the pettiness of the Neo-Impressionistic methods and to establish a new art school.

  31. There are paintings in the Neo-Impressionistic manner, except that they display a sensitive use of harmonious colours, which should have shown Signac and Cross the error of their rigid science.

  32. As such it is at once a derivation of Impressionism and a development of Impressionistic colour through the channels of taste.

  33. His first canvases were wholly Impressionistic and much like Guillaumin's.

  34. Impressionistic methods are now employed by a vast army of painters in all parts of the world, and the number of canvases which owe their existence to these discoveries is countless.

  35. From Steinlen he went to Toulouse-Lautrec and Impressionistic colour.

  36. Nevertheless the Impressionistic movement became for Pissarro the starting-point of a new way.

  37. His appearance dates from the Impressionistic period when preference was given to damp, misty atmospheres which toned down all colour and melted away all lines, and artists made a specialty of flat, monotonous plains.

  38. You see I was so anxious to prove that an American subject was just as susceptible of impressionistic treatment as a French one, that I made this look as French as I could.

  39. When they came home they brought the first impressionistic pictures ever seen in the West; at Pymantoning, the village cynic asked which was right side up, and whether he was to stand on his head or not to get them in range.

  40. A chemical compound of highly impressionistic autobiographic nonfiction and highly romantic fiction and folk tales.

  41. It was what I suppose would be called an impressionistic picture, but it differed from most impressionistic pictures in showing imagination in the artist instead of demanding it from the observer.

  42. His impressionistic style confused many of his critics, and it is told how a fine lord once looked at a picture be had made, and snorted: "Nothing but daubs, nothing but daubs!

  43. The sun was the centre of the impressionistic attack, the "splendid, silent sun.

  44. The amateur who honestly wishes to purge his vision of encrusted painted prejudices we warn not to go too close to an impressionistic canvas--any more than he would go near a red-hot stove or a keg of gunpowder.

  45. Brightness in clear-coloured shadows is the key-note of impressionistic open-air effects.

  46. He became the critical pioneer of the impressionistic movement and first told London about Manet, Monet, Degas.

  47. Impressionistic as are these canvases, there is a subdued splendor in them all.

  48. An oil-painting is an impressionistic affair, showing some overblown girls dressing after their bath.

  49. Etching in its essential nature is an impressionistic art.

  50. In common with several members of the impressionistic group to which he belonged, he suffered from hunger, neglect, obloquy; but when prosperity did at last appear he did not succumb to the most dangerous enemy that besets the artist.

  51. She sketched on the borders of her textbooks and on her blotting-paper, and was even guilty of purloining bits of coloured chalk from the blackboard box, and smudging impressionistic portraits of her comrades on spare pages of essay paper.

  52. But a little while ago it was the modern or impressionistic manner that needed explanation.

  53. In the four pieces now to be shortly described, the very latest and most impressionistic form of Titian's method as a painter is to be observed; all of them are in the highest degree characteristic of this ultimate phase.

  54. The industrious press agent of the circus long ago gave up the attempt, and resorted to impressionistic free verse, characterized by an ecstasy of alliteration.

  55. Impressionistic critics of the drama attempt to disparage a comedian by calling him a "mere clown.

  56. All three pictures are broadly painted and swept in in the usual impressionistic manner.

  57. This is what is called impressionistic criticism.

  58. However, the aquarelles and pastels and landscapes of Debussy or Ravel were invented by Urvater Liszt--caricatured by Wagner in the person of Wotan; all the impressionistic school may be traced to him as its fountain-head.


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