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postimpressionism

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post·im·pres·sion·ism  (pstm-prsh-nzm)
n.
A school of painting in France in the late 19th century that rejected the objective naturalism of impressionism and used form and color in more personally expressive ways.

postim·pression·ist adj. & n.
postim·pression·istic adj.

postimpressionism [ˌpəʊstɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a movement in painting in France at the end of the 19th century, begun by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and exemplified by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90), and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), which rejected the naturalism and momentary effects of impressionism but adapted its use of pure colour to paint subjects with greater subjective emotion
postimpressionist  n & adj
postimpressionistic  adj
Translations
postimpressionism
nNachimpressionismus m
postimpressionism [ˈpəʊstɪmˈprɛʃˌnɪzm] npostimpressionismo
postimpressionism [ˈpəʊstɪmˈprɛʃˌnɪzm] npostimpressionismo


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