impressionist
n.a person who paints or draws in a style that focuses on light and color rather than sharp details. You use this to describe artists who make their work look like a quick snapshot of a moment.
n.a painter or artist who employs a style characterized by the use of small, distinct marks of color to simulate the effects of light and movement. Often used to describe the 19th-century French school of painting.
“The artist is a famous impressionist who paints landscapes.”
“The gallery features several impressionist works that capture the fleeting beauty of a summer afternoon.”
“While the realist movement sought to depict subjects with absolute precision, the impressionist movement embraced the subjective experience of the moment, using loose brushstrokes to convey the play of light.”
“These were later discovered by the impressionists, inspiring the Japonisme movement and artists such as Monet, Van Gogh and Klimt.”
“Each dog’s fur has a clearly unique pattern of black, gold and white splotches—more Abstract Impressionist than the designs that cover snakes, zebras or leopards.”
From French impressionniste.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.