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   im·pres·sion·ism

   /imˈpreSHəˌnizəm/

   noun

   • 1. a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.
   • ▪ a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction.
   • ▪ a style of composition (associated especially with Debussy) in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the whole-tone scale.

   Word Origin from French impressionnisme, from impressionniste, originally applied unfavourably with reference to Monet's painting Impression: soleil levant (1872).

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