Example sentences for: impressionist

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

  • Nor should you neglect the National Museum of Western Art, on the east side of Ueno Park: an outstanding collection of French Impressionist paintings, prints, and drawings, the gift of a wealthy businessman named Kojiro Matsukata.

  • 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."

  • The visual drama of the Impressionist breakthrough into color and light has sometimes been dimmed in the frequent telling and retailing.

  • On one side of the church, in what used to be an 18th-century schoolhouse, you will find the Ferenczy Museum, displaying works by the Hungarian Impressionist Károly Ferenczy and his two children.

  • 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.


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