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

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 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.

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.

From these influences, he developed his own brand of " English Impressionism ", related more closely to French and Russian models than to the folk-song style then prevailing in English music.

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.

Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality ( a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit ), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

Impressionism is also a movement in music and a literary tendency.

: This piece, like the Suite for Cello Solo, is influenced by Spanish and Oriental folk music, and Impressionism.

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, 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.

* 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Louis Leroy's critical review of it published on 25 April gives rise to the term Impressionism for the movement, with reference to Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.

* Robertson Kirtland Mygatt ( 1861 – 1919 ), noted American Landscape painter, part of the Tonalist movement in Impressionism

Ironically, it is these paintings, created late in his life, and after the heyday of the Impressionist movement, that most obviously use the coloristic techniques of Impressionism.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.

Abstract Impressionism is a type of abstract painting ( not to be confused with Abstract Expressionism, a similar but different movement ) where small brushstrokes build and structure large paintings.

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle helped introduce Abstract Impressionism to Paris in the 1950s.

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.

His early work was influenced by the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

Impressionism was known for its usage of light and movement in its paintings.

Out of the naturalist ethic of Realism grew a major artistic movement, Impressionism.

The movement has latterly been described as Australian Impressionism.

In the 1870s those artists among others developed the art movement called Impressionism and practiced plein air painting.

What attracted Edades to the modernist movement was its principle to go beyond the idealistic exteriors propagated by Impressionism and Realism.

Later, his poetry was associated with literary Impressionism, and he is considered a forerunner of that movement.

More a tendency than a movement, Poetic Realism is not strongly unified like Soviet Montage or French Impressionism but were individuals who created this lyrical style.

Through the 1890s, his technique veered increasingly toward Impressionism in both oil and watercolor, even as the movement itself was giving way to Post-Impressionism and Fauvism.

Under the influence of the movement, Grigorescu looked for new means of expression and followed the trend of en plein air painting, which was also important in 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.