Impressionism was a term at first used mockingly to describe the work of the French painter Monet and his circle; they later made use of the word themselves. It was similarly used to describe an element of vagueness and imprecision coupled with a perceived excess of attention to colour in the early music of Debussy, who did not accept the criticism [..]

1839 as a term in philosophy, from impression + -ism. With reference to the French art movement, 1879, from impressionist. Extended 1880s to music (Debussy), literature, etc.

A 19th-century art movement, associated especially with French artists, whose works are characterized by relatively small, thin, visible brushstrokes that coalesce to form a single scene and emphasize [..]

The term, first used derisively, was derived from the title of a painting exhibited in 1874 by Monet, who exhibited the work independently of the official Salon in Paris along with artists such as Ren [..]

Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously ‘on the spot’ rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impression [..]

Term applied to composers such as Debussy, Delius, and Ravel who were composing in the same general time and place that the impressionist painters were active. This term, applied mostly to Debussy, re [..]

  Impressionism began as an artistic movement, and was used to describe a style of art which was designed to convey an impression rather than a literal depiction of the scene. This term was applied to [..]

(n) a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflected light

A French art movement of the late nineteenth century that rejected Romanticism in favor of fleeting, informal scenes from everyday life. improvisation The spontaneous, on-the-spot creation of music, p [..]

A style of painting that became prominent in the last quarter of the 19th century as a reaction to the ossified doctrine of the Academy and the content-oriented atelier, historical, and genre painting [..]

art movement in which painters broke away from the techniques of continuous brushstrokes and clearly expressed detail. They were largely concerned with the effects of light and color.

in a general sense, a technique in art of capturing an artist’s or viewer’s impression of a scene or mood. Specifically (usually with a capital I), an enormously influential, late 19th-century art mov [..]

Considered the first significant modern art movement because of deviating from academic realism and opening the door to abstraction, it is a painting style focused on changing effects of light and col [..]

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from t [..]

A style of painting that started in France during the 1860s. Impressionist artists tried to paint candid glimpses of their subjects showing the effects of sunlight on things at different times of day. [..]

A painting technique in which the artist concentrates on the changing effects of light and color. Often this style can be characterized by its use of discontinuous brush strokes and heavy impasto.

Described as “wretched”, and “insulting”, when it first emerged in 1874, this movement was ridiculed, and critics compared the paintings to the scribbles a child might produce. The term, derived from [..]

paintings, prints, works on paper, sculpture. Impressionism is the term applied to an art movement in France during the late 19th century that focused on landscapes and scenes of everyday life. The mo [..]

A depiction of nature and the light that reflects off is a form of impressionism. In the 19th century artist were taught to use the current light and weather to make the art. If the same artist were t [..]

progressive art movement that originated in France in the late 19th century. Impressionist painters wanted to capture the rapidly changing modern world and the fleeting moods of nature. Impressionism relied on optical blending to depict the fluctuations of light and consisted largely of views of everyday middle-class life in the city and countrysid [..]

Loose spontaneous style developed in the late 19th century in France, in which artists tried to capture their impressions of light and shade.

The name of the movement comes from the title of a work by Claude Monet called "Impression, Sunrise." Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement distinguished by visible brush strokes, op [..]

Considered the first great modern art movement, impressionism is a break away from tradional techniques of continuous brush strokes. It is also a break from the representation of sharply outlined obje [..]

A highly influential art movement that originated in France in the 1860s and is associated with the emergence of modern urban European society. Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other Impressio [..]

Art style developed in France where artists like Degas, Monet, Pissaro and Renoir painted images of their subjects showing the effects of colour, sunlight and shade on things at different times of day [..]

A 19th century art movement characterized by visual brush strokes, open composition and an emphasis on light in its changing qualities (like over time).

Referred to as the most important art movement of the 19th century, impressionism is still widely practiced today, and influenced many successive art movements. The term impressionism emerged in the 1860's and came from a painting by Claude Monet (1840-1926) entitled Impression Sunrise. The term became widely used to describe the painting meth [..]

Impressionism attempted to catch and reflect momentary impressions with great accuracy. Changes of natural light appeared in richness of colours and delicacy never witnessed before. Contours of object [..]