Word: impressioniste
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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William Ernest Henley is an impressionist in poetry. He has given us many bright little glints and sketches. A characteristic of Henly is his pugnacity. He is always trying to overthrow the reputations of the men who possess them, and to build up reputations for the men who have none...
...these two methods of painting is the better, that is, which the more accurately expresses the effects and truths of nature. Art, we are given to understand, is the exponent of the true, the good and the beautiful, but it seems very doubtful whether either the Realist or the Impressionist gives us art in his paintings...
...said that there were two schools which are at the present time engrossing the thoughts of the artistic world,- the Realist and the Impressionist Schools. Realism is nothing more than detailism, the painting with the greatest possible technical accuracy of every feature of the subject in hand; while Impressionism is something not to be found in the sky above, the earth beneath, or the water below the earth; it is the generalizing, the expressing of merely the salient features of the subject...
...each school treats it. For the Realist of the Ruskin type it is a tool of wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion of a possible truth; it is something between...