luminism

[ loo-muh-niz-uhm ]

noun
  1. a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.

Origin of luminism

1
1900–05; <Latin lūmin-, stem of lūmen light + -ism

Other words from luminism

  • lu·min·ist, noun, adjective

Words Nearby luminism

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