IMPRESSIONISTS
The impressionist style of painting is general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
The French impressionist movement (French Impressionisme) that first started with painting and then moved into music developed chiefly during the 19th and 20th centuries.
This group of artists shared a set of related approaches and techniques. "the trademark of their ambition was to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour." The official theory was that colour should be dropped pure on the canvas instead of getting mixed on the palette.
The movement was at it's height of popularity between 1867 and 1886. The principal artists of the movement were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin and Frederic Bazille. Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne also painted in that style in the early 1870's.
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