IMPRESSIONISM

19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists Prominent during 1870s and 1880s harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France

IMPRESSIONISM CHARACTERISTICS
relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes open composition emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities common, ordinary subject matter inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience unusual visual angles

CLAUD MONETS CONTEMPORARIES

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette

Berthe Morisot, Le berceau (The Cradle), 1872

Mary Cassatt, Lydia Leaning on Her Arms (in a theatre box), 1879

Camille Pissarro, Boulevard Montmartre, 1897

Alfred Sisley, Vue du canal SaintMartin, 1870

Berthe Morisot, Reading, 1873

Edgar Degas, Dancer Taking a Bow (The Star), 1878

Armand Guillaumin, Soleil couchant Ivry (Sunset at Ivry), 1873

Gustave Caillebotte, Rue de Paris, temps de pluie, 1877

Frdric Bazille, Paysage au bord du Lez, 1870