Etymology

postimpressionism

Today it means: A genre of painting that rejected the naturalism of impressionism, using colour and form in more expressive manners. Full definition →

English impressionism ← French impressionnisme ← Latin impressiōnem
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  8. Proto-Italic*en
  9. Proto-Italic*en-
  10. Latinin-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*per-?
  12. Proto-Indo-European*pres-
  13. Proto-Italic*pres-
  14. Latinpremō
  15. Latinimprimō
  16. Latinimpressiōnem
  17. Frenchimpression
  18. Frenchimpressionnisme
  19. Englishimpressionism
  20. English todaypostimpressionism

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.