Akshit posted an Question
June 13, 2021 • 03:39 am 30 points
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Do provide info about impressionistic criticism

do provide info about impressionistic criticism

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    Chanchal Jangid Best Answer

    Impressionistic criticism emphasizes the way that a work of art affects the critic. Arthur Symons and Swinburne are the two prominent exponents of this type of criticism in the modern age. In this respect, Arthur Symons is the critical successor of Walter Pater who was also an impressionistic critic. The mind of the impressionistic critic is sensitive like a sensitive camera plate. Just as a camera plate when exposed before an object takes an impression of that object, so also the mind of the impressionistic critic takes on the impression of the work of art to which it is exposed. His mind is more sensitive and more cultivated—more cultivated because of the impressions it has received and stored in from the critic’s wide reading and so its impressions are more numerous and more refined than those of a man of average sensibility. Further, these impressions are not photographic reproductions. The critic also translates and interprets, and in this way imposes his own impressions upon the impressions which he has received from the work of art. Thus impressionistic criticism tends to be personal and objective. 

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