Impressionism

1865-1885 - Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari. Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles. The emergence of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous movements in other media which became known as Impressionist music and Impressionist literature. Artists include: Edouard Manet Eugene Boudin Frederic Bazille Alfred Sisley Edgar Degas Pierre-Auguste Renoir Mary Cassatt Camille Pissarro Claude Monet Walter Richard Sickert Berthe Morisot