* Impressionism: Paintings collected by European Museums ( 1999 ) was an art exhibition co-organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum, touring from May through December 1999.

His style was formed within the mode of French Impressionism and Post-impressionism and later went through a Fauve period.

France derived part of its modern artistic inspiration from Japanese art, essentially through Japonism and its influence on Impressionism, and almost completely relied on Japan for its prosperous silk industry.

I was accused of returning to Impressionism, of making decorative paintings, etc .… I felt I had almost reached my goal ”.

As a stylistic forerunner of Impressionism, he is today considered a " father figure not only to the Impressionists " but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, including Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

Several important painters who are considered American spent much of their lives in Europe, notably Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, and John Singer Sargent, all of whom were influenced by French Impressionism.

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is home to more than 12, 000 works of art in all media and is a comprehensive collection of American art with prominent holdings in 19th century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, pop, minimalism, and contemporary art.

Sometimes his work was referred to as Abstract Impressionism because of his all over style.

At Barcelona's School of Fine Arts, Torres García fell in with such future renowned painters as Joaquim Mir, Joaquim Sunyer, Ricard Canals and Isidre Nonell, all of whom were influenced by the popular French Impressionism of the moment, and by the writings of Émile Zola.

Impressionism was blossoming in France all around Tryon, but he was not swayed by the new style and remained comfortably within the realm of the Barbizon school.

Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one step farther, rejecting once and for all a belabored style and the use of mixed colors and black, for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light ( partly inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner ).

Impressionism would take the Barbizon school one further, rejecting once and for all a belabored style ( and the use of mixed colors and black ), for fragile transitive effects of light as captured outdoors in changing light ( in part inspired by the paintings of J. M. W. Turner ).

Brushing aside the ' decadent ' tag, the author argued that all three " streaks of Modern art " — " Mystic essence, Symbolic language and Impressionism " — could be easily traced down to the works of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, Russian Modernism, therefore, being nothing more or less than a continuation of the Russian literature's classic tradition.

But whilst he referred to the earlier school of watercolourists his works are all his own and were created as much as reaction to French Impressionism but with a peculiarly English slant.

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.

The museum houses 2, 200 works, including French Impressionism, 20th century American realism, Japanese modern paintings, prints, earthenwares, ceramics and textiles.

" John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism ( 1946 ), and pointed out that a " subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period "— Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse — was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements derived from Impressionism and confined to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Brought on by Impressionism, the piano suite was reintroduced by early 20th century French composers such as Ravel and Debussy.

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.

The highly metaphorical work is still celebrated for its deeply Sufi incantations and philosophical undertones and is an important work in the Chhayavaad ( i. e. Impressionism ) literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature.

Paris had arguably been the classical music capital of the world since the advent of musical Impressionism in the late 19th century.

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.

Artists have long painted outdoors, but in the mid-19th century working in natural light became particularly important to the Barbizon school and Impressionism.

In the last decades of the century American Impressionism, as practiced by artists such as Childe Hassam and Frank W. Benson, became a popular style.

However these qualities and those mentioned above anticipate many of the later developments in painting of the nineteenth century from romanticism to Impressionism.

During the last few centuries, society has broadened its view of what can be considered as art and several new styles developed during the 19th century such as Impressionism and Realism.

In the 1950s, a quarter of a century after the death of Monet, major museums in America started having exhibitions of the original French Impressionists paintings, and in so doing Impressionism was reborn.

Following on the radical developments of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the end of the nineteenth century, the first half of the twentieth century in France saw the even more revolutionary experiments of cubism, dada and surrealism, artistic movements that would have a major impact on western, and eventually world, art.

The museum art collection includes French painting of the Barbizon School, Impressionism, Post-impressionism, and the School of Paris, and Jewish art from mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century.

" As the new century began, some three decades after the Impressionists ' first exhibitions in France, Impressionism finally gained a legitimacy in the American art community, and Hassam began to sell to major museums and receive jury awards and medals, vindicating his belief in his vision.

If these historical illustrations anticipated the literal qualities of early Impressionism, it is paintings such as The French Window and The Palace Garden of Prince Albert, both painted in the mid-1840s, that now appeal as " among the most freely observed of mid-nineteenth century images.

After 1920, the Clarks focused mainly on the art of 19th century France — specifically works of Impressionism and the Barbizon School.

The early years of the twentieth century were dominated by experiments in colour and content that Impressionism and Post-Impressionism had unleashed.

20th-century French art developed out of the Impressionism and Post-Impressionism that dominated French art at the end of the 19th century.

The early years of the twentieth century were dominated by experiments in colour and content that Impressionism and Post-Impressionism had unleashed.

For example, when the careful, even tedious, art techniques of French neo-classicism became oppressive to artists living in more exuberant times, a stylistic revolution known as " Impressionism " vitalized brush strokes and color.

Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term " Impressionism ", which he intended as disparagement but which the Impressionists appropriated for themselves.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

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.

France during this time is associated with cultural innovations and popular amusements – cabaret, can-can, the cinema, new art forms such as Impressionism and Art Nouveau.

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists.

The art of these prints contributed significantly to the " snapshot " angles and unconventional compositions that became characteristic of Impressionism.

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.

This split was never absolute, since both factions believed that art was essentially spiritual in character, opposing their idealism to the materialist realism associated with Courbet and Impressionism.

During the years 1907-1914-the central cradle for Cubism was his gallery-not only to see the works of what was the most important art movement since Impressionism but where one also met the artists, discussed art and where artists discussed each other's works.

While the painterly handling of the works inspired comparison to Impressionism, and the emotional tone suggested a narrative more akin to genre painting, specifically Degas's Interior, the documentary realism of the Camden Town paintings was without precedent in British art.

Paul Cézanne set out to restore a sense of order and structure to painting, to " make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums ".

Several decades later, Impressionism revolutionized art by a taking a similar approach — quick, spontaneous painting done in the out-of-doors ; however, where the Impressionists used rapidly applied, un-mixed colors to capture light and mood, Corot usually mixed and blended his colors to get his dreamy effects.

Although Impressionism in painting began well before the Belle Epoque, it had initially been met with skepticism if not outright scorn by a public accustomed to the realist and representational art approved by the Academy.

The result of a few months spent near London was a series of nearly twenty paintings of the Upper Thames near Molesey, which was later described by art historian Kenneth Clark as " a perfect moment of Impressionism.

Stephens ' conservative views on modern art and his strong dislike of Impressionism ended his forty-year association with the Athenaeum.

In their eyes, Seurat had " taken a fundamental step toward Cubism by restoring intellect and order to art, after Impressionism had denied them " ( to use the words of Herbert ).