intimismn.

1903 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 3/2 The great result of the emancipation of French art from Italian influence is what he [sc. C. Mauclair] calls ‘intimism’.

1959 P. Murray & L. Murray Dict. Art & Artists 164 Intimisme, a form of Impressionist technique applied to the depiction of everyday life in domestic interiors rather than to landscape. The work of Bonnard and Vuillard is usually meant.

1960 Times 16 Feb. 14/7 To paint a group of television viewers would be a caricature of ‘intimisme’.

1903 P. G. Konody tr. ‘C. Mauclair’ Fr. Impressionists ix. 196 Simon Bussy is decidedly the most personal of that young generation of ‘Intimists’ who seem to have retained the best principles of the Impressionist masters.

1937 Times 7 Oct. 12/3 In artistic slang they [sc. Bonnard and Vuillard] are grouped together as ‘intimists’, and the name serves well enough to describe..their habit of dwelling upon their material so as to extract from it the last possibilities in subtle colour relationships.

1959 Listener 21 May 898/1 The modified impressionism of Vuillard, a style especially suitable for such intimiste themes.

1967 Listener 18 May 654/1 Károly Ferenczy's ‘Sunny Morning’ of 1905 and the intimiste paintings of about the same period by..an associate of Bonnard in Paris.

1968 Listener 23 May 680/1 Jiri Menzel has everywhere been praised, like other Czech directors, as intimiste.

1973 Times 20 Mar. 9/7 The gallery shows a mixture of contemporary art and regular Paris-Londres exhibitions together with minor impressionists and intimists.