Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. The movement was named after Claude Monet's Impression, soleil levant (1873); the term being coined by critic Louis Leroy. See also Impressionist music, American Impressionism A girl with a watering can by Renoir, 1876 Impressionism as Painting Technique The Impressionist approach to painting is usually identified with a strong concern for light in its changing qualities, often with an emphasis on the effects of a particular passage of time. Impressionism is still widely practiced today, and a variety of successive movements were influenced by it. painters who showed in the Impressionist exhibitions Eugene Boudin Mary Cassatt Gustave Caillebotte Camille Corot Edgar Degas Henri de Fantin-Latour Edouard Manet Claude Monet Berthe Morisot Camille Pissarro Pierre-Auguste Renoir Alfred Sisley Pigeons have been trained to distinguish between cubist and impressionist paintings; see discrimination abilities of pigeons for details. see also: History of painting, Post-Impressionism This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.