Example sentences for: impressionist

How can you use “impressionist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Renoir, Monet, and their associates in the Impressionist circle were beginning to find ways to leave behind the shadowy chiaroscuro of earlier European painting, which they associated with a rural world now lost to modern experience.

  • In the corner near the Seine, facing place de la Concorde, the Orangerie is known for its two oval rooms with Monet’s beautiful Nymphéas (Water Lilies) murals, but see, too, the fine collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings upstairs (see page 71).

  • He was the last Impressionist, but he also traveled the farthest, pushing the limits of landscape until he broke right through them.

  • This is the tale of an 1872 visit by the Impressionist painter to the relentlessly colorful Louisiana city.

  • The son of fashionable Parisian modistes , dealers in hats and accessories, Corot lived comfortably on a trust fund until he himself became the fashion, both among wealthy industrialists (who treasured his visions of the very rural serenity they were threatening) and among the rising young stars of the impressionist generation--Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro--who revered "Papa Corot," even as he disdained their "blinding use of color."


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