Impressionism

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Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. The movement was named after Claude Monet's Impression, soleil levant (1873); the term being coined by critic Louis Leroy. See also Impressionist music, American Impressionism

Impressionism as Painting Technique

\nThe Impressionist approach to painting is usually identified with a strong concern for light in its changing qualities, often with an emphasis on the effects of a particular passage of time. Impressionism is still widely practiced today, and a variety of successive movements were influenced by it. painters who showed in the Impressionist exhibitions\n*Eugene Boudin\n*Mary Cassatt\n*Gustave Caillebotte\n*Camille Corot\n*Edgar Degas\n*Henri de Fantin-Latour\n*Edouard Manet\n*Claude Monet\n*Berthe Morisot\n*Camille Pissarro\n*Pierre-Auguste Renoir\n*Alfred Sisley Pigeons have been trained to distinguish between cubist and impressionist paintings; see discrimination abilities of pigeons for details. see also: History of painting, Post-Impressionism, Cos Cob School \n\n\n\n\n\n Category:Art movements