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n. - A painter who follows the theories of a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to create the effect of reflected light

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  • impressionist music
  • Roman style was evolved both in painting and sculpture, the salient features of which he characterizes as impressionist or "illusionist".
  • Art critics have called the impressionist's work "reminiscent of the 19th-century Romanticists."
  • The musical style of both composers has been called impressionist, after the French painting tradition.
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