Impressionism is a 19th-century (nineteen) art movement

that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose

independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during
the 1870s (eighteen seventy) and 1880s (eighteen eighty).
Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small,
thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on
accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary
subject matter, and inclusion of movement as a crucial
element of human perception and experience, and unusual
visual angles.
The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet
work, Impression, soleil levant, which provoked the critic Louis
Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the
Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

Gallery
Sunrise
This painting is from Claude Monet, he is French and he
did in 1872 (eighteen seventy two)
The painting is in the museum Marmottan Monet in
Paris.
The Ball at Moulin de la Galette
This painting is from Auguste Renoir, he is french and he
did in 1876 (eighteen seventy six)
The painting is in the museum dOrsay in Paris