luminism

MAIN VISUAL ART CONCEPTS: Line * Value * Color * Texture * Contrast * Proportion * Luminism

I wrote in magazines and in three books that Impressionism (which might equally well be called "Luminism") being the dupe of the moment, of translation in front of Nature, sur le motif, of the luminous moment, was leading French painting to the "abyss of amorphousness".'

This well-preserved painting is considered an early example of luminism, an American painting style that depicts the effects of light played out across tranquil settings, calm waters, and hazy skies.

Recalling and affirming the great American landscape tradition in all its incarnations, her works embody Martin Johnson Heade's transcendental luminism, Mark Rothko's visionary veils of color, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles's ecopolitics.

For too long, vers-librisme has been the postimpressionist luminism of our poetry.

These latter works, which foregrounded media ecology and environmentalism along with notions of place, mobilized the luminism and Romantic elements of nineteenth-century American landscape painting.

Drawing inspiration from the early American art style of 'Luminism', this collection of work emanates an ethereal style that emphasizes the effects of light and atmosphere with the artists' application of illuminating mediums, such as gold leaf and patina.

Often, when his landscapes stun us with the unnatural calm of measureless silence and light, they feel equally akin to what has been called American Luminism.

Gray Sweeney, in exposing the pedigree of "luminism," a term that came into particular vogue in the 1970s and 1980s, concluded with a pat on postmodernists' backs: "Their methodology often entails close readings of the semiologies of the artifacts while attending to its contemporary reception, and grounding it in the social, political, and economic context of its production and consumption.

Visitors can clearly see the differences between the Hudson River School and Luminism by comparing Gifford's quieter approach, with its more subtle colors and compositions, to that of the English-born Thomas Cole (1801-1848), initial leader of the Hudson River School.

This light is enough to reveal us as we are, bound together, in the warmth and good light of habitation, in the good and fleshly aliveness of us." In Source, Dutch still lifes have given way to "Manhattan: Luminism." The luminist painters were a small 19th-century school of landscape artists who tried to recreate that special American light of the Eastern seaboard, the salt marshes of the Chesapeake, the cranberry bogs of New England, the hazy fields of newly mowed meadow in which objects are, in Doty's words, "edgeless, o ne bit!