Impressionism emerged as an artistic style in France in the 1860s.

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 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.

The central figures in the development of Impressionism in France, listed alphabetically, were:

As the influence of Impressionism spread beyond France, artists, too numerous to list, became identified as practitioners of the new style.

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

Musical Impressionism beyond France includes the work of such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ottorino Respighi ( Italy ) and Cyril Scott and John Ireland ( England ).

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

After first exploring Impressionism, by 1913, in Composition with Figures, she was experimenting with the particularly Russian development of Cubo-Futurism: a fusion of two equal influences from France and Italy.

He saved his earnings and, by 1907, was able to visit France to study Impressionism.

One of the largest of its kind in France, the museum houses extensive collections of paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, multimedia and design from the period between 1870 ( Impressionism ) and today, as well as a wide range of pieces in its photographic library.

The Macchiaioli artists were forerunners to Impressionism in France.

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.

" 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.

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

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.

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.

Although associated with cultural innovations and popular amusements ( cabaret, cancan, the cinema, new art forms such as Impressionism and Art Nouveau ), France was nevertheless a nation divided internally on notions of religion, class, regionalisms and money, and on the international front France came repeatedly to the brink of war with the other imperial powers, including Great Britain ( the Fashoda Incident ).

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

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

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.

He exhibited at the Salon for over 60 years, from 1802 into the beginnings of Impressionism, but his style, once formed, changed little.

* Impressionism at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

He also developed an interest in what would come to be called musical Impressionism, although later life he denied any exposure to the music of Debussy at this time, claiming instead to have arrived at similar techniques on his own.

She also studied under Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase in American Impressionism.

By 1918, William Wendt had built a studio at Laguna Beach and California Impressionism was in full swing.

Allen returned to Broadway in March 2009, when she played the role of Katherine Keenan in Michael Jacobs ' play Impressionism opposite Jeremy Irons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

The artists of the Ashcan School rebelled against American Impressionism, which was the vanguard of American art at the time.

Generally associated with American Impressionism, he is also remembered for his New England landscapes and involvement with the artists ' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut.

OMA's recently completed projects include the Viktor & Rolf Store in London ( 2011 ), the Edouard Malingue Gallery, displaying Modernism and Impressionism art, in Hong Kong ( 2010 ), Prada Transformer, a rotating multi-use pavilion in Seoul ( 2009 ), the Zeche Zollverein Historical Museum and master plan in Essen ( 2006 ), the Seoul National University Museum of Art ( 2005 ), the much acclaimed Casa da Música in Porto ( 2005 ), the Prada Epicenter in Los Angeles ( 2004 ), the Seattle Central Library ( 2004 ), the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art ( 2004 ), the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin ( 2003 ) and the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago ( 2003 ).

In 1888, he traveled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, where he studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and embraced Impressionism.

The New York Times reported that Weiss, together with Marsha Mason ( Steel Magnolias ), André De Shields ( Full Monty ), Aaron Lazar ( A Tale of Two Cities ) and Margarita Levieva were to join the cast of the world premiere of Impressionism, a new American play by Michael Jacobs, directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O ' Brien, opening at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on 12 March 2009, following previews from 28 February 2009.

The four Americans represented the core of American Impressionism, dedicated to painting what was real for them, what was familiar and close at hand, out-of-doors when possible, and with the immediacy of light and shadow — which though exaggerated and falsely colored at times — makes a purposeful impact or impression.

Hassam displayed six paintings at the landmark Armory Show of 1913, where Impressionism was finally viewed as mainstream and nearly an historical style, and displaced by the clamor over the radical revolution of Cubism, fresh from Europe.

The American painting collection at the museum ranges from 18th-century portraits and 19th-century landscape painting to American Impressionism and modernism with works by acclaimed artists John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and Thomas Hart Benton.

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

He had work included in the ' Recent Australian Painting ' exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and ' Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionism, Modern ' at the Tate Gallery.

At the same time, Cohl's art moved from scene-setting to story-telling, and from the Gill fantoche style to Impressionism.

Renoir turned away from Impressionism for a time during the 1880s, and never entirely regained his commitment to its ideas.

During this time, Gauguin became increasingly disillusioned with Impressionism, and the two quarreled.

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.

While studying, Tamayo experimented with and was influenced by Cubism, Impressionism, and Fauvism, among other popular art movements of the time, but with a distinctly Mexican feel.

He wrote against the prevailing ideas of the time that art from outside of Germany, such as French Impressionism was superior to traditional academic or native art.

The group turned away from the prevailing Naturalism of the time and experimented with various facets of Modernism, including Symbolism and Impressionism.

It is the first time photography became the main starting point for the solution to a central character of a painting and speaks to the deep influences that photography would have later on in art and movements like French Impressionism.