arrivism

Updated: May 28, 2025

All these extraneous and one might even say irrelevant attempts toward speedy arrivism are set aside in the presence of the almost solemn severity of minds like Pissarro and Sisley, and of Cézanne, who extracted for himself all that was valuable in the passing idea of impressionism. The picture which lasts is never the entirely idiosyncratic one.

Marsden Hartley - Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets