Luminism (Impressionism)

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Emile Claus, Sunny Day (1899). Oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm (36.5 x 28.9 in.) The Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

Luminism is a late-impressionist or neo-impressionist style in painting which devotes great attention to light effects.

The term has been used for the style of the Belgian painters such as Emile Claus and Théo van Rysselberghe and their followers (Adriaan Jozef Heymans, Anna Boch, Évariste Carpentier, Guillaume Van Strydonck, nl, Jenny Montigny, nl, George Morren (1868-1941), Modest Huys, nl, nl, Yvonne Serruys and Juliette Wytsman, as well as for the early pointillist work of the Dutch painters Jan Toorop, Leo Gestel, Jan Sluijters, and Piet Mondriaan.

In the Spanish painting the luminism term or Valencian luminism used for the work of a group of prominent Spanish painters led by Joaquín Sorolla and Ignacio Pines, Teodoro Andreu, Francisco Benítez Mellado or Vicente Castell.

Both styles have little in common. Emile Claus's work is still close to that of the great French impressionists, especially Claude Monet, whereas Dutch luminism, characterized by the use of large color patches, is closer to fauvism.

Gallery

• Joaquin Sorolla - Paseo a la orillas del mar.jpg

  Paseo a orillas del mar, de Joaquín Sorolla, 1909.

• Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench Emparrado.jpg

  Emparrado, de Ignacio Pinazo, 1912.

• Emile Claus - De ijsvogels.jpg

  Emile Claus
  Skaters

• Emile Claus - First Communion.jpg

  Emile Claus
  First Communion

• Young peasant women at the leie, by EmileClaus.jpg

  Emile Claus
  Young peasant women at the leie

• Jeune fille à l'arrosoir (Évariste Carpentier, 1845-1922).jpg

  Évariste Carpentier
  Girl with a Watering Can

• Près de la rivière. Evariste Carpentier.jpg

  Évariste Carpentier
  Near River

• Le vieux jardinier (Guillaume Van Strydonck).jpg

  Guillaume Van Strydonck
  The Old Gardener

• Saules aux bords de l'Escaut (Guillaume Van Strydonck).jpg

  Guillaume Van Strydonck
  Willows by the Scheldt

• Juliette Wytsman001.jpg

  Juliette Wytsman
  Spirea

• Jenny Montigny.Kleuterschool te Deurle.JPG

  Jenny Montigny
  Deurle Kindergarten

• Le passage (Modest Huys).jpg

  Modest Huys
  Crossing