abstract impressionismn.
/ˈabstrakt ɪmˈprɛʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈabstrakt ɪmˈprɛʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈæbˌstræk(t) ᵻmˈprɛʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Fine Art.
Painting which combines characteristics of abstraction and impressionism; esp. a form of painting which resembles the works of the Impressionists, esp. Monet, in brushwork and effect, but has no representational content.In earliest use with reference to painters more commonly described as abstract expressionists, as an alternative to abstract expressionism. In the usual sense apparently coined by the American artist, Elaine de Kooning (1918–89): see quot. 1958.
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abstract impressionism1950
1950 C. Greenberg Joan Miró 24 It was not Cubism itself that guided him toward the abstract so much as the abstract Impressionism of Kandinsky.
1957 R. M. Coates in New Yorker 9 Feb. 83/1 Someone, I don't quite know who, has neatly christened this general style of painting Abstract Impressionism.
1958 L. Alloway in Abstr. Impressionism (Arts Council G.B.) 4/1 The term Abstract Impressionism seems to have been coined by Elaine De Kooning in 1951 at the Arts Club, 8th Street, New York.
1974 New York 25 Mar. 70/2 He began, around 1945, to paint flickering masses of small brush marks..in a prophetic version of Abstract Impressionism.
1996 Observer 31 Mar. (Review section) 11/5 A Craigie Aitchison Crucifixion cowers, despite its huge frame, beside a multi-coloured slosh of late arrival abstract impressionism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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