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luminism

[loo-muh-niz-uhm]

noun

  1. a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.



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Other Word Forms

  • luminist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of luminism1

1900–05; < Latin ū-, stem of ū light + -ism
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Example Sentences

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Terms which express the same idea in general or in part, are "luminism" and "plein-air painting."

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