In rolls the 19th century. Impressionism started out in the 1870s and 1880s as an informal series of art sessions among Parisian painters who were independently prominent and the movement is primarily borne out of a shared set of related techniques and approaches to art and painting. The name Impressionism was taken from the celebrated painting titled Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), by Claude Monet, an artwork which prompted a critic to coin the term as a satirical article.
The impressionist style of painting focuses on the artist's overall impression of a scene or object, combined with the use of small brush strokes and unmixed primary colors. The resulting effect is an interesting simulation of reflected light on varying surfaces. Impressionistic techniques will be discussed in greater detail in the next post.
Major Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. These artists worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together and independently. Other notable Impressionist artists were Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne, who also painted in an Impressionist style in the early 1870s.
It is also interesting to note that Édouard Manet, a well-established painter whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced Monet and several others of this group, adopted the Impressionist approach sometime in the mid 1870s as well.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872
Oil on canvas, 48 cm × 63 cm
Le bateau atelier (The Boat Studio), 1876
Oil on canvas, 72 x 59.8 cm
Camille Pissarro, Portrait of Félix Pissarro, 1881
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