Impressionism was a 19th Centuary Art Movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!.
- Claude Monet
Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein- air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting impressionism Sunrise.
The view of this painting looks over the Le Havre harbor in France. Sunrise is thought of as an important painting of the impressionist movement as art critics used this painting to deride the exhibition.
Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Post-Impressionists extended impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, thick application of paint, distinctive brushstrokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour.
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