Luminism (Impressionism)

Emile Claus, Sunny Day (1899). Oil on canvas, 93 cm × 74 cm (37 in × 29 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 (mainly Flemish) painters such as Emile Claus and Théo van Rysselberghe and their followers Adriaan Jozef Heymans, Anna Boch, Évariste Carpentier, Guillaume Van Strydonck, Leon de Smet, Jenny Montigny, Anna De Weert, George Morren, Rodolphe De Saegher, Emmanuel Viérin, Modest Huys, Georges Buysse, Marcel Jefferys, 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.

After Emile Claus died in 1930, his pupil, Anna de Weert continued to paint in the luminist style at her studio near Ghent.

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, Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench, Teodoro Andreu, Francisco Benítez Mellado and Vicente Castell.

The Belgian and Dutch 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

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  Paseo a orillas del mar, de Joaquín Sorolla, 1909.
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  Emparrado, de Ignacio Pinazo, 1912.
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  Emile Claus
  Skaters
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  Emile Claus
  First Communion
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  Emile Claus
  Young peasant women at the Leie
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  Évariste Carpentier
  Girl with a Watering Can
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  Évariste Carpentier
  Near River
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  Guillaume Van Strydonck
  The Old Gardener
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  Guillaume Van Strydonck
  Willows by the Scheldt
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  Juliette Wytsman
  Spirea
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  Jenny Montigny
  Deurle Kindergarten
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  Modest Huys
  Crossing
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  Emmanuel Viérin
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  Rodolphe De Saegher