luminism

[ loo-muh-niz-uh m ]
/ ˈlu məˌnɪz əm /

noun

a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.

Origin of luminism

1900–05; < Latin lūmin-, stem of lūmen light + -ism

OTHER WORDS FROM luminism

lu·min·ist, noun, adjective