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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A style of 19th-century American landscape painting concerned especially with the meticulous rendering of atmospheric light and the perceived effects of that light on depicted objects.
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- noun an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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By the 1870s, the artist became interested in the American landscape movement known as luminism, which explored, among other concerns, the immensity of the sea and the untapped frontiers of America.
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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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A proponent of luminism and student of the Barbizon school, Porter was esteemed by peers for his still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
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