Video by: HASAREH MOHAMMADIAN Narrator MURAT HAKANOL Special thanks to ASSIST. PROF.DR. Firat TÜZÜNKAN What is Luminism? Luminism refers to a type of American landscape painting that became most prominent in the 1850s and lasted into the 1870s practiced among artists associated with the Hudson River School. Luminism, is a late 19th-century painting style emphasizing a unique clarity of light.