Postimpressionism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of impressionism, using colour and form in more expressive manners. uncountable
Etymology
From post- + impressionism. Coined by English artist and art critic Roger Fry to describe the (mostly French) art presented in an exhibition at the London Grafton Galleries in 1910.
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