What's the difference between impressionist and impressionistic?

Impressionist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To check on impressionistic assertions that the United States is becoming an "age-irrelevant society," a quota sample of white-collar and blue-collar men and women (ages eighteen to seventy; N = 462) was studied with a questionnaire that asked for designation of the most suitable ages for various role transitions and age-related attributes.
  • (2) This latest upswing in themarket for impressionist and modernist works simply represents a more cautious investment in art’s bluechip stocks and given the limited supply, we’ll no doubt see a new sale record very soon.
  • (3) Britain's biggest auction of Impressionist art in a decade was crowned last night when Amedeo Modigliani's Garçon à la Veste Bleu sold for more than £6m.
  • (4) Looking at her piles of source material and cuttings, you half expect her to announce as the old impressionist used to: “And this is me”.
  • (5) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
  • (6) A poignant and powerful piece, m b v often bears closer comparison to abstract impressionist painters such as Mark Rothko.
  • (7) The right is "painterly" and the left is "superficially powerful and impressionistic".
  • (8) Studies of the variables that determine whether an adolescent is placed in the mental health or juvenile justice system for treatment have led to conflicting conclusions based on impressionistic data.
  • (9) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
  • (10) The EEG data were subjected to both impressionistic and quantitative analyses.
  • (11) In the first case we show that accessory phenotypes with higher penetrance than that of schizophrenia itself may be crucial for effective linkage analysis, and in the second case we show that impressionistic selection of informative pedigrees may be misleading.
  • (12) "It's meant to be a kind of visual mash-up, or an impressionistic reinterpretation of all those things.
  • (13) Van Gogh , one of the greatest figures in Post-Impressionist painting, worked on paper as he excitedly awaited the arrival of his artist-friend, Paul Gauguin.
  • (14) Having previously known little about impressionism, he had arrived in Paris in time to see the eighth (and last) impressionist exhibition.
  • (15) Political satire has also, in recent decades, graduated towards standup comics and impressionists, with no role for the straight frontman Frost played on his comedy shows.
  • (16) Data collection is separated from inference, hence the criticism that the nursing data is impressionistic and opinionated is avoided.
  • (17) You’ve got Rodin’s The Kiss and Rodin’s The Thinker and this is up there with them in terms of importance and recognisability ... it is such a classic.” John Berger: the dark side of Degas's ballet dancers Read more Degas first exhibited his wax figure of a young ballet dancer – one of Paris Opera Ballet’s “little rats” – dressed in real silk and tulle tutu, at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881 in Paris.
  • (18) More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby’s next big London impressionist and modern art sale, the auction house announced on Wednesday.
  • (19) "This is a market for masterpieces," said Melanie Clore of the impressionist department.
  • (20) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).

Impressionistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To check on impressionistic assertions that the United States is becoming an "age-irrelevant society," a quota sample of white-collar and blue-collar men and women (ages eighteen to seventy; N = 462) was studied with a questionnaire that asked for designation of the most suitable ages for various role transitions and age-related attributes.
  • (2) This latest upswing in themarket for impressionist and modernist works simply represents a more cautious investment in art’s bluechip stocks and given the limited supply, we’ll no doubt see a new sale record very soon.
  • (3) Britain's biggest auction of Impressionist art in a decade was crowned last night when Amedeo Modigliani's Garçon à la Veste Bleu sold for more than £6m.
  • (4) Looking at her piles of source material and cuttings, you half expect her to announce as the old impressionist used to: “And this is me”.
  • (5) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
  • (6) A poignant and powerful piece, m b v often bears closer comparison to abstract impressionist painters such as Mark Rothko.
  • (7) The right is "painterly" and the left is "superficially powerful and impressionistic".
  • (8) Studies of the variables that determine whether an adolescent is placed in the mental health or juvenile justice system for treatment have led to conflicting conclusions based on impressionistic data.
  • (9) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
  • (10) The EEG data were subjected to both impressionistic and quantitative analyses.
  • (11) In the first case we show that accessory phenotypes with higher penetrance than that of schizophrenia itself may be crucial for effective linkage analysis, and in the second case we show that impressionistic selection of informative pedigrees may be misleading.
  • (12) "It's meant to be a kind of visual mash-up, or an impressionistic reinterpretation of all those things.
  • (13) Van Gogh , one of the greatest figures in Post-Impressionist painting, worked on paper as he excitedly awaited the arrival of his artist-friend, Paul Gauguin.
  • (14) Having previously known little about impressionism, he had arrived in Paris in time to see the eighth (and last) impressionist exhibition.
  • (15) Political satire has also, in recent decades, graduated towards standup comics and impressionists, with no role for the straight frontman Frost played on his comedy shows.
  • (16) Data collection is separated from inference, hence the criticism that the nursing data is impressionistic and opinionated is avoided.
  • (17) You’ve got Rodin’s The Kiss and Rodin’s The Thinker and this is up there with them in terms of importance and recognisability ... it is such a classic.” John Berger: the dark side of Degas's ballet dancers Read more Degas first exhibited his wax figure of a young ballet dancer – one of Paris Opera Ballet’s “little rats” – dressed in real silk and tulle tutu, at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881 in Paris.
  • (18) More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby’s next big London impressionist and modern art sale, the auction house announced on Wednesday.
  • (19) "This is a market for masterpieces," said Melanie Clore of the impressionist department.
  • (20) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).

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