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Definition of Intimism
1. Noun. (arts) A genre of art (or literature) involving the depiction of quiet, domestic scenes, usually of domestic interiors ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intimism
1. a type of French impressionist painting [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intimism
Literary usage of Intimism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great French Painters: And the Evolution of French Painting from 1830 to by Camille Mauclair (1903)
"There is no doubt that intimism is the expression of the preoccupations of the
contemporary ... intimism is partly the outcome of Chardin, Millet, Prudhon, ..."
2. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"... achieved that perfection of intimism which is her proper goal.—Times.
The reference to the English nonconformists was a graceful amend to them for being ..."
3. Paris the Beautiful by Lilian Whiting (1908)
"To Romanticism succeeded Impressionism ; to Impressionism succeeds intimism.
All the merely dogmatic laws of academic rule are swept away, or, rather, ..."
4. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1904)
"For succeeding waves of romanticism, naturalism, impressionism, intimism obliterated
the sound tradition inherited from the eighteenth century and ..."
5. The Passing of the Old Order in Europe by Gregory Zilboorg (1920)
"The movement in painting which is called intimism, or the contemplative art of
the French poet, Francis Jammes, are very characteristic from this point of ..."
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