luminism

[ loo-muh-niz-uhm ]

/ ˈlu məˌnɪz əm /

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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.

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Origin of luminism

1900–05; <Latin lūmin-, stem of lūmen light + -ism

OTHER WORDS FROM luminism

lu·min·ist, noun, adjective

Words nearby luminism

lumine, luminesce, luminescence, luminescent, luminiferous, luminism, luminophore, luminosity, luminosity class, luminous, luminous efficacy