Impressionism

Impressionism was a French major movement during the late 19th and 20th century. Artists have been producing artworks between 1867 and 1886 where a group of seven people joined together and worked/shared their related approaches and techniques.

The seven men that joined together and formed this group were; Claude Monet, Camille Pisarro, Pierre Aususte Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin and Frederic Bazille. They influenced each other and exhibited together in the same place but as separate artists, later on Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne also were painting as impressionist in early 1970’s.

This movement took its main look at the characteristics of light and colour, where their art were not accepted back to their days as the painting wasn't full of detail but an impression of the image. Thats where the name of this movement got it's name, as people were drawing an Impression of something.

With their techniques of thin brush strokes and a bright explosion of colours, Monet, Mary Cassatt and Alfred Sisley confounded critics and obviously they sparked a scandal. Just because the Salon had refused to exhibit their work they did not give up and as a group they exhibited in Nadar's place for the first time in 15th April till 15 May 1874 where now a days about century and a half later, they have ended up among the most revered and influential artists of all time.

Claude Monet         Camille Pisarro        














Berthe Morisot

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Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Impressionism: Art and Modernity | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm.