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This Morning, This Evening (a portrait of a rural Alabama community in which Ross embedded himself), to Nickel Boys, his impressionistic bravura fiction feature debut about two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
His work is instantly recognizable, with vibrant, impressionistic swirls of purple, orange, green and red.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
Nietzsche’s genealogy, needless to say, was a more impressionistic affair, and didn’t reach back to any evolutionary savanna.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
His work is instantly recognizable, with vibrant, impressionistic swirls of purple, orange, green and red.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
Nietzsche’s genealogy, needless to say, was a more impressionistic affair, and didn’t reach back to any evolutionary savanna.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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