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Definition of Luminism
1. 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.
Definition of Luminism
1. a style of painting [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminism
Literary usage of Luminism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1806)
"... allows that II- luminism was totally different from Free Masonry. The two
institutions, therefore, ..."
2. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting Delivered on the Scammon by Kenyon Cox (1911)
"... of the naturalistic tendency is what has usually been called the impressionistic
movement—that which people are now beginning to call luminism. ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1887)
"we see coming into notice, year after year, under names as arrogant as they are
unjustifiable, such as naturalism, impressionism, luminism, ..."
4. The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting. Delivered on the by Kenyon Cox (1912)
"... of the naturalistic tendency is what has usually been called the impressionistic
movement—that which people are now beginning to call luminism. ..."
5. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; a by Charles Buck (1830)
"... as an ? т dence of which he communicates as the /j.- -- creí to his most
favoured adepts, that the n:\ ••: ries of II.luminism, which ..."
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