luminism

[loo-muh-niz-uhm]

lu·min·ism

[loo-muh-niz-uhm]
noun
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:
1900–05; < Latin lūmin-, stem of lūmen light + -ism

lu·min·ist, noun, adjective
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luminism

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 
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