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impressionist, n. (a.)|ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst|
[ad. F. impressioniste: see impression and -ist.]
1. a. A painter who endeavours to express the general impression produced by a scene or object, to the exclusion of minute details or elaborate finish; also, a writer who practises a similar method; hence an impressionist painting, and in similar transf. uses.
1876H. James Parisian Sk. (1958) 131 An exhibition for which I may at least claim that it can give rise..to no dangerous perversities of taste is that of the little group of the Irreconcilables—otherwise known as the ‘Impressionists’ in painting. 1881Even. Standard 1 Feb. 4/5 To create this misty sentiment is the aim of the modern impressionist. 1883Times 3 Mar. 8 This artist..is something of an impressionist; though he does condescend..to put into one point of his picture..a vast amount of elaborate work. 1891Ibid. 20 Jan. 4/5 Velasquez and Frans Hals, the Great Twin Brethren of the Impressionists' worship. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xi. 208 They would take a slow turn up and down the picture-gallery, with its splendid collection of Impressionists.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1876H. James Parisian Sk. (1958) 132 The ‘Impressionist’ doctrines strike me as incompatible, in an artist's mind, with the existence of first-rate talent. 1884Littell's Living Age CLXI. 74 The Impressionist school. 1887Athenæum 23 July 123 The great increase of so-called Impressionist pictures. 1892Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 337, I should make one of the poetical impressionist painters who sway the public taste. 1893R. Fry Let. 20 Sept. (1972) I. 154, I don't quite make out whether Elsie Howard is Impressionist; I suppose so, but I thought she was Ruskinian. 1894G. Meredith Let. 5 July (1970) III. 1163 Beware of a hurried habit of mind that comes of addiction to Impressionist effects. 1933Burlington Mag. Dec. 276/2 The Impressionist movement in England will never count for much. 1969Listener 28 Aug. 274/3 A letter from the aged Earl Attlee in his own impressionist typewriting, full of splendidly sinister words like ‘Ghsmberlian’ and ‘recoll3ftian’.
2. Mus. A composer of impressionistic music. Also attrib.
1908W. H. Daly Debussy 10 It is convenient, even if it is an incomplete definition of his altogether novel attitude towards music, to describe Debussy as an impressionist. He is something more than an impressionist as the term is commonly understood, although in his work there is not a little which recalls the methods and the points of view of the masters of impressionist painting. 1927[see bitonality]. 1947C. Gray Contingencies & Other Ess. iii. 91 The so-called impressionists were anticipated by him [sc. Liszt] in many of their most characteristic effects and procedures, sometimes by as much as half a century. 1948Penguin Music Mag. Oct. 46 The half-Tristanesque, half-impressionist Nocturne. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xii. 132 The French Impressionist composers and their American disciples and imitators made a great impression upon Bix's generation of jazz musicians. 1955R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) xii. 281 His borrowed effects from jazz, the Impressionists, and the French Romantics. 1959D. Cooke Lang. Mus. i. 2 Medieval music was largely architectural in conception: the romantics were much concerned with the literary; the impressionists with the pictorial; modern music has swung back again to the architectural.
3. Theatr. A comedian whose act consists of imitations or impersonations of well-known personalities, etc. Cf. impression 6 d.
1964Sun (Sydney) 19 Nov. 40/5 Beside the virtuosity of American entertainer Frank Gorshin..all other impressionists fade almost into insignificance. 1973‘E. Morecambe’ in Morecambe & Wise Eric & Ernie ii. 90 Most comedians start out as impressionists, but if they don't develop past that stage they never become big names. 1981Times 28 Feb. 16 Like most modern impressionists, he ‘took off’ stars of stage, screen and radio. |