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  • noun A painter who paints in the intimism genre

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Examples

  • The giddy colourist is really a daring philosopher, the intimist a public man after all.

    Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010

  • THANKS for this advance of this intimating (intimist??) song, can¿¿t wait for the hole cd

    Free MP3 Download: John Mellencamp's "Longest Days": Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • During a period when American art was dominated by Abstract Expressionism, he stubbornly clung to his own intimist, suavely painted view of things: portraits of his wife, children, and friends; domestic still lifes; landscapes around his house on Long Island and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, the latter a family property that has also been depicted by his brother, the photographer Eliot Porter.

    Things As They Are Ashbery, John 1983

  • The great resurgence of regional writing in England, accompanied by regional acting, gave sudden impetus to this kind of quasijournalistic expression, often coarse in texture and therefore seemingly accurate to the ignorant, but since I could at the best of times play no part in this intimist revival,

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • « His latest album proposes in solo, an intimist reading of fifteen revolutionary songs of different periods in time and of different regions of the world, melodies that events in time or fortuitous meetings have happened to transform into symbols of resistance, melodies strongly laden with political emotion.

    AvaxHome RSS: nahueljazz 2009

  • Theatre Grief imbues intimist theatre from Vancouver's Kim Collier

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Marsha Lederman 2012

  • Chrysalis [trailer] in 2007), this time the director is tackling what he describes as an intimist war film, "a Private Ryan in a cockpit".

    Cineuropa 2010

  • The question doesn't fazeAlejandro Amenábar, the Oscar-winning director of the intimist the Cannes Festival out of competition, has one goal: « To make the audience feel like they're following a CNN team documenting something that happened in the 4th century ".

    Cineuropa 2009

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