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Inspired by the criticism of that picture, the term Impressionists was thus imposed upon the new school of painting, now recognized as the most important and influential of the 19th century.
Art Knowledge News 2009
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Inspired by the criticism of that picture, the term Impressionists was thus imposed upon the new school of painting, now recognized as the most important and influential of the 19th century.
Art Knowledge News 2009
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Monet & the Impressionists is on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney until the 26th of January 2009.
October 2008 2008
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One of her paintings was acquired by the National Academy Museum on Fifth Avenue; the Century Association named her its amateur artist of the year in 2009; and her works hang in homes better known for brand-name Impressionists and Old Masters.
At 70, a First Gallery Show Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Muhly's ret-conning of 19th Century aesthetics into Jungian collectivity, really doesn't hold up, if you think about Wagner's critique of the mimetic, Brahms's formalism, what the Impressionists were actually after, and the intense retroimposition of the absolute that to which the later half of the century subject subjected the first.
Thermostat Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Their artistic successors have sought to bring more definitional clarity to a term the Impressionists never used.
Daniel Grant: Debate: Must 'Plein Air' Be Defined? Daniel Grant 2010
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Their artistic successors have sought to bring more definitional clarity to a term the Impressionists never used.
Daniel Grant: Debate: Must 'Plein Air' Be Defined? Daniel Grant 2010
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The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called Impressionists—Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir.
AS SEEN ON TV: METTE GAD Toby O'B 2010
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But this time, Jan brought a nonfic article for her art history class, about the late-19th-century Japonisme fad, and how Japanese art influenced western art especially the Impressionists, which is hard to fathom, decor, and dress.
saith the gourd unto Herod Holly 2007
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Seen on BBC and PBS television, The Impressionists is a three episode miniseries full of light and color, just like the paintings of these impressionist painters.
Archive 2007-05-01 ricklibrarian 2007
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