Lexicographical Neighbors of Luminist
Literary usage of Luminist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1905)
"... he ought rather to be called a luminist (an expression of ... by luminist we
understand an artist whose specialty is the apprehension and treatment of ..."
2. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"They still hang together, and attest the influence of the great luminist of the
seventeenth century upon his more richly gifted rival of the nineteenth. ..."
3. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"As a luminist," to take a word from the French, ' there is perhaps no modern
painter who is quite his equal, for every part of his best pictures is alive ..."
4. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"justly observes, the surest mark of an accomplished luminist. It would be easy
and not unprofitable to carry the analysis of Vermeer's style much further, ..."
5. A Color Notation by Albert Henry Munsell (1905)
"called that of a luminist, or painter like Rembrandt, whose canvases present
great contrasts of light and shade, ..."
6. The History of Modern Painting by Richard Muther (1907)
"At the very opposite pole of art stands Paul Albert Besnard: amongst the worshippers
of light he is, perhaps, the most subtle and forcible poet, a luminist ..."
7. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1916)
"Enneking was a modern Romanticist combining qualities of the Impressionist,
luminist and Tonalist, though he was not enrolled in any accepted school. ..."
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