Word: coloristic
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Catlin was no colorist. His drawing did not approach the swirling dynamism of a Remington; his technique could not compass the majestic grandeur that Bierstadt gave to the Rockies. Many of his figures were cursorily laid in, and many of his landscapes were studded with stylized hills that suggest haste rather than observation. But his candid style has an impact on the modern viewer that Remington's hyped-up romanticism no longer does. His so-called ineptness of drawing has been re-evaluated in the wake of the incisive simplicities of a Douanier Rousseau or even a John Kane...
Pissarro was the least spectacular of the impressionists. An eye used to Monet (and Monet is what many people believe impressionism was all about) will be apt to find Pissarro conservative-more of a tonal painter, almost, than a colorist...
Stylistically, he favors clean, sharp-edged, objective interpretations, free of flourishes and exaggerations even in the most romantic repertory. Some listeners consequently miss a certain warmth and spontaneity in his playing. Although capable of producing beautiful sonorities, he is admittedly not the poet or colorist that, say, Vladimir Ashkenazy is. Nor, despite his limpid, shapely way with Mozart and Beethoven, does he share the Austro-German classical tradition of an Alfred Brendel. Yet everything he does arises from such a deep, individualized conception, and is brought off with such musicality and unforced virtuosity, that it carries its own commanding authority...