But Impressionism, and through it almost all of 20th century art, is also firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition.

The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise ( Impression, soleil levant ).

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.

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.

Erik Satie also dabbled with Dadaist ideas during his career, although he is primarily associated with musical Impressionism.

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 usually connected with the term sensualism.

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.

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.

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

The influence of visual Impressionism on its musical counterpart is debatable.

He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.

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.

Recognized as an important artist in his lifetime, Degas is now considered " one of the founders of Impressionism ".

He is commonly known as " the painter of light " and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

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.

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.

He is considered a prominent figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism.

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

He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of 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.

This comprehensive collection of American art includes prominent holdings of 19th-century landscape and still life, American Impressionism, early Modernism, Geometric abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field painting, Minimalism and Contemporary Art.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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 ".

" 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.

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 ).