impressionistic

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These works are Impressionistic, displaying washes of scenes featuring elements like lily pads and flowers, some of them incorporating gold leaf as an accent in reference to the Japanese kintsugi technique.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

New York’s cityscape is softened into brushy, Impressionistic swaths.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Impressionistic daubs of sound—a soft strike on the center of a cymbal, a tap on the edge of a drum, a scrape of a stick across a drumhead—conjure a sense of limitless space.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

Child With A Dove was seen as marking a transition from Picasso's celebrated Blue Period, when he moved away from a broadly Impressionistic style.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2016

Impressionistic critics of the drama attempt to disparage a comedian by calling him a "mere clown."

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce