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Background Vocabulary for Virginia Woolf: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
imagery(im·age·ry) noun
 visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work:
Tennyson uses imagery to create a lyrical emotion
 visual images collectively: the impact of computer-generated imagery on
contemporary art
 visual symbolism: the film’s religious imagery
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Impressionism(Im·pres·sion·ism) noun
 a style or movement in painting originating in France in
the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of
the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.
The company also features a large collection of famous fine art including but not
limited to Cezanne, Van Gogh and Monet, and the catalogue covers major painting
movements from Realism to Impressionism and Naive Art.
 a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather
than to achieve accurate depiction.
The company produces limited edition fine art prints that are directly applied to
textured canvas, with varying styles from abstract to Impressionism.
 Music: a style of composition (associated especially with Debussy) in
which clarity of structure and
theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the wholetone scale.
His formative student years were spent in Paris as a pupil of d' Indy at the Schola
Cantorum, though he learnt more from the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel.
The Impressionist painters repudiated both the precise academic style and
the emotional concerns of Romanticism, and
their interest in objective representation, especially of
landscape, was influenced by early photography. Impressionism met at
first with suspicion and scorn, but soon became deeply influential.
Its chief exponents included Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas, and Sisley
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dualism(du·al·ism)
noun
 1 the division of something conceptually into
two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided: a dualism
between man and nature
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post-Impressionism(post-Im·pres·sion·ism) noun
 the work or style of a varied group of late-19th-century and early-20thcentury artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted
against the naturalism of the Impressionists to explore color, line, and form,
and the emotional response of the artist, a concern that led to the
development of expressionism.
The 120 works in this retrospective of the French modernist Vlaminck show the
evolution of his art through post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism to his later
expressionistic landscapes.
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