impressionism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impressionism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for impressionism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Impressionism n a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impressionism \Impres"sionism\, n. [F. impressionnisme.] (Fine Arts) The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.