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luminism

Method of painting, associated with the Hudson River School in the 19th century, that emphasized the effects of light on water.

Luminist painters included F H Lane, T Cole, A B Durand, M J Heade, and F E Church. They paid particular attention to the treatment of light in their paintings, stressing keen observation and technical mastery.



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He wants to foreground Luminism (in Bush's words from the third presidential debate, "the sunrise side, not the sunset side" of the mountain) as an expression of manifest destiny but also aims (in most cases successfully) to stake his own claim to the American landscape painting.
Marc Handelman: Lombard-Freid Fine Arts by Rosenberg, Karen / Artforum International
In some paintings Tapley's sympathies with Romanticism in general, and American luminism in particular, ate evident, but elsewhere she works with the compressed space of modernist painting.
EMMA TAPLEY by Schwabsky, Barry / Artforum International
Her master's thesis at Columbia University explored the connection between luminism and Eastern thought.
Fact and Fiction by Brenson, Michael / Artforum International
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