How to Use impressionism in a Sentence

impressionism

noun

• If Doncic is mysterious, so were both World Wars, impressionism and the day-to-day affairs of the Pope.
  — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• At the Fulginiti Pavilion, the emphasis is on Impressionism, but the show pushes its own boundaries to get some big names on the walls.
  — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Know, 16 Apr. 2017
• Despite the potent dose of impressionism, one thing is always clear: Bejar is still having fun.
  — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 22 Mar. 2022
• The music reflects both the influence of Impressionism and Ibert’s background as a silent-movie pianist.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Jazz and impressionism combine in the first movement, based on Mary Cassatt’s Summertime.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• The rest of the program, devoted to French impressionism, delivered more mixed results.
  — Dallas News, 30 June 2022
• The art of French impressionism and specialty cocktail making will be the order of the day when French 75 opens later this summer in downtown Aurora.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
• Cézanne, of course, wanted to dig even deeper, bypassing realism to get to the more abstract essence of things, beyond the pastel washes of impressionism.
  — Ann Hornaday, star-telegram.com, 2 May 2017
• Predicting the first round of the NFL draft more than three months before it's scheduled tends to be an exercise based more in impressionism than exactitude.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
• The pictures beneath the wire sculptures are more akin to French impressionism than to shanshui, and overall, Lin-Lin’s work gives a more luxuriant impression than Bertrand’s.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Her main work is in abstract realism and impressionism.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• The art of French impressionism and specialty cocktail making will be on display when French 75 opens sometime this summer in downtown Aurora.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
• Considered as one of the greatest French painters of the 20th century, Bonnard weaved impressionism and abstraction with bold colors and depiction of scenes of everyday life.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
• Like in art, after worshiping artists whose work matched life with no brushstrokes, immaculate and seemingly out of reach, there was suddenly a move to impressionism.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• His influences ranged from the impressionism of Ravel and Debussy to the energy and harmonic invention of bebop.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
• As his condition deteriorates, the artist begins to see the world through a lens of cubism, surrealism and impressionism.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 30 Jan. 2020
• Artistic movements like impressionism, cubism, and naturalism reflected a growing distrust of the eye’s ability to see and know the world.
  — Allain Daigle, The Atlantic, 13 May 2018
• The bulk of the album consists of original works steeped in the delicate feel of romanticism and impressionism with the unmistakable influences of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• And there are five late paintings by Claude Monet in a huge spare room, illuminated only by natural light, that make even those of us a bit burned out over impressionism see their luminous beauty.
  — David Colker, The Mercury News, 6 May 2017
• And then his conducting tended toward impressionism more than precision, his bow sometimes waving wildly in the air.
  — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Maite Gomez-Rejon explores how 19th century French cafe and food culture intersects with the iconic imagery of impressionism.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2022
• The Singer Laren's collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism and cubism.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• The Singer Laren’s collection has a focus on modernism such as neo-impressionism, pointillism, expressionism, and cubism.
  — Mike Corder, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2020
• With dizzying impressionism, Good night the pleasure was ours is an enthralling portrayal of the delicate balance between performer, audience, and sound.
  — Sadie Dupuis, SPIN, 29 Dec. 2022
• But for all its ethereal whooshing and surrealist impressionism, this season of Twin Peaks is some of Lynch’s most grounded, humane, and contemporary work.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• The answer lies in another gallery at the Mennello showcasing impressionism.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• McGinley’s pictures, whose style derives from French impressionism, are less symbolic.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• Ironically, Dreher's 20-year art career has focused on impressionism and landscapes.
  — Dennis Sullivan, Daily Southtown, 6 July 2018
• Influenced by jazz and French impressionism, composer Antonio Carlos Jobim was the architect of the bossa nova movement.
  — Ernesto Lechner, SPIN, 16 Apr. 2024
• Its permanent collection showcases artists from the 19th to 21st centuries, and works from the neoclassical to impressionism to deconstructivism.
  — Kathleen Squires, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024