impressionistn.adj.

Brit.

/ɪmˈprɛʃn̩ɪst/, /ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst/, U.S.

/ᵻmˈprɛʃ(ə)nəst/

Etymology: < French impressioniste: see impression n. and -ist suffix.

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 transferred uses.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > impressionism > artist

French Impressionist1876

impressionalist1876

impressionist1876

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > impressionism > painting

impressionist1958

1876 H. James Parisian Sketches (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.

1881 Evening Standard 1 Feb. 4/5 To create this misty sentiment is the aim of the modern impressionist.

1883 Times 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.

1891 Times 20 Jan. 4/5 Velasquez and Frans Hals, the Great Twin Brethren of the Impressionists' worship.

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive xi. 208 They would take a slow turn up and down the picture-gallery, with its splendid collection of Impressionists.

b. attributive or as adj.

ΚΠ

1876 H. James Parisian Sketches (1958) 132 The ‘Impressionist’ doctrines strike me as incompatible, in an artist's mind, with the existence of first-rate talent.

1884 Littell's Living Age 12 Apr. 74 The Impressionist school.

1887 Athenæum 23 July 123 The great increase of so-called Impressionist pictures.

1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 337 I should make one of the poetical impressionist painters who sway the public taste.

1893 R. 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.

1894 G. Meredith Let. 5 July (1970) III. 1163 Beware of a hurried habit of mind that comes of addiction to Impressionist effects.

1933 Burlington Mag. Dec. 276/2 The Impressionist movement in England will never count for much.

1969 Listener 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. Music. A composer of impressionistic music. Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music

fuguist1789

symphonist1789

melodist1826

threnodist1827

instrumentalist1838

melophonist1847

polyphonist1864

musical dramatist1866

operettist1867

tone poet1874

orchestrator1875

French Impressionist1876

monodist1888

romantic1892

neoclassicist1899

orchestralist1899

variationist1900

mensuralist1901

tone-painter1903

impressionist1908

pre-Romantic1918

phrase-maker1924

polytonalist1925

atonalist1929

dodecaphonist1953

serialist1954

twelve-toner1955

miniaturist1962

minimalist1969

tonalist1982

1908 W. 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 A. E. Hull Mus. Class. Romantic & Mod. xvii. 318 Bi-tonality in two harmonic streams arose from the isolated bi-tonal chords, so frequently found in the works of Strauss and the French impressionists of the period 1900–10.

1947 C. Gray Contingencies 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.

1948 Penguin Music Mag. Oct. 46 The half-Tristanesque, half-impressionist Nocturne.

1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xii. 132 The French Impressionist composers and their American disciples and imitators made a great impression upon Bix's generation of jazz musicians.

1955 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) xii. 281 His borrowed effects from jazz, the Impressionists, and the French Romantics.

1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music 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. Theatre. A comedian whose act consists of imitations or impersonations of well-known personalities, etc. Cf. impression n. 6d.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > impersonator

mime1760

mimic1791

female personator1852

male impersonator1876

impressionist1964

1964 Sun (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.

1981 Times 28 Feb. 16 Like most modern impressionists, he ‘took off’ stars of stage, screen and radio.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	impressionist
释义	impressionistn.adj. Brit. /ɪmˈprɛʃn̩ɪst/, /ɪmˈprɛʃənɪst/, U.S. /ᵻmˈprɛʃ(ə)nəst/ Etymology: < French impressioniste: see impression n. and -ist suffix. 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 transferred uses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > impressionism > artist French Impressionist1876 impressionalist1876 impressionist1876 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > impressionism > painting impressionist1958 1876 H. James Parisian Sketches (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. 1881 Evening Standard 1 Feb. 4/5 To create this misty sentiment is the aim of the modern impressionist. 1883 Times 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. 1891 Times 20 Jan. 4/5 Velasquez and Frans Hals, the Great Twin Brethren of the Impressionists' worship. 1958 L. Durrell Mountolive xi. 208 They would take a slow turn up and down the picture-gallery, with its splendid collection of Impressionists. b. attributive or as adj. ΚΠ 1876 H. James Parisian Sketches (1958) 132 The ‘Impressionist’ doctrines strike me as incompatible, in an artist's mind, with the existence of first-rate talent. 1884 Littell's Living Age 12 Apr. 74 The Impressionist school. 1887 Athenæum 23 July 123 The great increase of so-called Impressionist pictures. 1892 Mrs. H. Ward David Grieve II. 337 I should make one of the poetical impressionist painters who sway the public taste. 1893 R. 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. 1894 G. Meredith Let. 5 July (1970) III. 1163 Beware of a hurried habit of mind that comes of addiction to Impressionist effects. 1933 Burlington Mag. Dec. 276/2 The Impressionist movement in England will never count for much. 1969 Listener 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. Music. A composer of impressionistic music. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music fuguist1789 symphonist1789 melodist1826 threnodist1827 instrumentalist1838 melophonist1847 polyphonist1864 musical dramatist1866 operettist1867 tone poet1874 orchestrator1875 French Impressionist1876 monodist1888 romantic1892 neoclassicist1899 orchestralist1899 variationist1900 mensuralist1901 tone-painter1903 impressionist1908 pre-Romantic1918 phrase-maker1924 polytonalist1925 atonalist1929 dodecaphonist1953 serialist1954 twelve-toner1955 miniaturist1962 minimalist1969 tonalist1982 1908 W. 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 A. E. Hull Mus. Class. Romantic & Mod. xvii. 318 Bi-tonality in two harmonic streams arose from the isolated bi-tonal chords, so frequently found in the works of Strauss and the French impressionists of the period 1900–10. 1947 C. Gray Contingencies 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. 1948 Penguin Music Mag. Oct. 46 The half-Tristanesque, half-impressionist Nocturne. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xii. 132 The French Impressionist composers and their American disciples and imitators made a great impression upon Bix's generation of jazz musicians. 1955 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) xii. 281 His borrowed effects from jazz, the Impressionists, and the French Romantics. 1959 D. Cooke Lang. Music 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. Theatre. A comedian whose act consists of imitations or impersonations of well-known personalities, etc. Cf. impression n. 6d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > impersonator mime1760 mimic1791 female personator1852 male impersonator1876 impressionist1964 1964 Sun (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. 1981 Times 28 Feb. 16 Like most modern impressionists, he ‘took off’ stars of stage, screen and radio. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.adj.1876
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