* 1999 Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums, which received 215, 000 visits.

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of " les trois grandes dames " of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

However, these days composers are generally not as accurately described by the term " Impressionism " as painters in the genre were.

Impressionism also gained a foothold in England, where its traits were assimilated by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and Frederick Delius.

The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

By recreating the sensation in the eye that views the subject, rather than delineating the details of the subject, and by creating a welter of techniques and forms, Impressionism is a precursor of various painting styles, including Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism.

The development of Impressionism can be considered partly as a reaction by artists to the challenge presented by photography, which seemed to devalue the artist's skill in reproducing reality.

Works by these artists are sometimes casually referred to as Impressionism, despite their remoteness from Impressionist practice.

Originating in France, musical Impressionism is characterized by suggestion and atmosphere, and eschews the emotional excesses of the Romantic era.

Although these cases illustrate the difficulty of assigning labels, the work of the original Impressionist painters may, by definition, be categorised as Impressionism.

She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of " les trois grandes dames " of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.

Inspired by European Impressionism, the artists incorporated Western elements such as the effects of light and the expression of individual moods but focused on strictly traditional themes.

This, however, was rejected by some members of the Communist party, who did not appreciate modern styles such as Impressionism and Cubism, since these movements existed before the revolution and were thus associated with " decadent bourgeois art.

Like Whistler, Monet and Pissarro both focused their efforts on views of the city, and it is likely that Whistler was exposed to the evolution of Impressionism founded by these artists and that they had seen his nocturnes.

Impressionism was developed in France by artists such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro.

Subsequent Salons des Refusés were mounted in Paris in 1874, 1875, and 1886, by which time the popularity of the Paris Salon had declined for those who were more interested in Impressionism, this was not the case for the artist Manet who still wanted to be acclaimed by the original Salon, looking for permanence and nobility like many other traditionalists.

Elaine de Kooning coined the term " Abstract Impressionism " and it was soon used by critic Louis Finkelstein in an attempt to distinguish for Philip Guston the difference between the two forms.

He achieved this by reducing objects to their basic shapes while retaining the bright fresh colours of Impressionism.

" Convenient, when the term is by definition limited to French visual arts derived from Impressionism since 1886.

Initially he was influenced by Impressionism, then by Fauvism and Art Nouveau.

Impressionism in music was a movement in European classical music, mainly in France, which appeared in the late nineteenth century and continued into the beginning of the twentieth century.

Musical Impressionism is the name given to a movement in European classical music that arose in the late 19th century and continued into the middle of the 20th century.

Disappointed with Impressionism, Gauguin felt that traditional European painting had become too imitative and lacked symbolic depth.

In this period American watercolor ( and oil ) painting was often imitative of European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but significant individualism flourished within " regional " styles of watercolor painting in the 1920s to 1940s, in particular the " Cleveland School " or " Ohio School " of painters centered around the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the " California Scene " painters, many of them associated with Hollywood animation studios or the Chouinard Art Institute ( now California Institute of the Arts ).

American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

His style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never embraced Impressionism.

She was one of the earliest Australian artists to be influenced by the European Post-Impressionist movement and lead a break away from Australian Impressionism.

Tonalism was eventually eclipsed by Impressionism and European modernism.

Inspired by European Impressionism, the artists incorporated Western elements such as the effects of light and the expression of individual moods, but focused on strictly traditional themes of landscapes ( fukeiga ), famous places ( meishō ), beautiful women ( bijinga ), kabuki actors ( yakusha-e ), and birds and flowers ( kachōga ).

However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called “ Impressionism ,” did not do well.

It is assumed that many of those lost were done in the Impressionist style he was then developing, thereby “ documenting the birth of Impressionism ," a style that some credit him with inventing.

However, she was " fired up with the cause " of promoting Impressionism and looked forward to exhibiting " out of solidarity with her new friends ".

As Joachim Pissarro points out, “ Once such a die-hard Impressionist as Pissarro had turned his back on Impressionism, it was apparent that Impressionism had no chance of surviving.

Pissarro explained the new art form as a “ phase in the logical march of Impressionism ”, but he was alone among the other Impressionists with this attitude, however.

He wrote that his painting The Sick Child ( 1886 ), based on his sister's death, was his first " soul painting ", his first break from Impressionism.

The Impressionists learned much from the work of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin, who painted from nature in a style that was similar to Impressionism, and who befriended and advised the younger artists.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born painter who played a part in Impressionism although he did not join the group and preferred grayed colours.

The exhibition Shades of British Impressionism Lamorna Birch and his Circle was shown at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery in the Mezzanine in October 2004.

Altenberg was one of the main proponents of Viennese Impressionism.

This was also part of the larger Impressionism movement, with similar themes to Hokusai appearing in Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Russell introduced him to Impressionism and to the work of van Gogh, who had been a friend of Russell but was completely unknown at the time.

Micheli's work, however, was so fashionable and the genre so commonplace that the young Modigliani reacted against it, preferring to ignore the obsession with landscape that, as with French Impressionism, characterized the movement.

Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism.

Charles-François Daubigny ( 15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878 ) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism.