Impressionism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impressionism \Im*pres"sion*ism\, n. [F. impressionnisme.] (Fine
     Arts)
     The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression
     without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a
     recent fashion in painting and etching.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Impressionism
       n : a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured
           appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the
           impression of reflected light