...and Hopper did what his rebellious mentor Robert Henri could not — shake off French Impressionism entirely.
Here was not a European import, but a uniquely American artist.
The liveliness of impressionism was gone, replaced by a still, strange, geometric, urban solitude.
3. Collocation
A series of words that are put together so often that they become a phrase of their own without any obvious reason why.
For example, although strong and powerful have similar meanings, we are accustomed to saying "strong coffee" rather than "powerful coffee".