Impressionism
/ɪmˈpreʃənɪzəm/noun
mass noun
1- 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 colour（绘画）印象主义, 印象派（19世纪60年代兴于法国, 重视描绘瞬间视觉印象, 尤其是表现光与色的转换效果）。
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- a literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction（文学、艺术中的）印象主义, 写意派（寻求捕捉感觉或体验, 而不图精确描述）。
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- Music a style of composition (associated especially with Debussy) in which clarity of structure and theme is subordinate to harmonic effects, characteristically using the whole-tone scale【乐】（作曲）印象主义, 印象派（尤指德彪西的音乐创作, 重和声效果胜过结构与主题）。
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.
词源
from French impressionnisme, from impressionniste, originally applied unfavourably with reference to Monet's painting Impression： Soleil levant (1872).