Word: impressionistic
Words on a page can conjure an image. For example, when I see the world "library" written, I envision a room, dim and spacious. It must contain shelves around a perimeter packed with books, of which only the spines are visible. In the center of the room are tables that may or may not have reading lamps upon them, depending.
When I see the word "impression", I have no impression, until a suffix is added. Just a few more letters, always beginning with an "i" and I travel through time and across oceans unimpeded by language. I'm writing of course about the Impressionists and Impressionism. While they are not my favorite ism as far as schools of art, they are certainly an iconic bunch or more accurately their work is. I sincerely doubt I can say anything new about this movement that hasn't be trodden to death, so I will simply ask, wouldn't it be fun to discover them for the first time, now, instead of having spent decades being assaulted with their imagery with everything from water lily cocktail napkins to haystack mouse pads? I have heard that when their paintings were first introduced to the general public many many years ago, there was an uproar, something about such tasteless garishness. Imagine that.
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