Impressionism
A late nineteenth-century movement associated with visible brushwork, changing light and subjects drawn from modern life.
Example
At Orsay, compare how Monet, Renoir and Degas treat light and modern experience rather than looking for one fixed Impressionist style.
Sources: musee-orsay.fr
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Related terms
Art movements
Post-Impressionism
A broad label for artists who developed distinct structural, symbolic or expressive approaches after Impressionism.
Techniques and materials
Plein-air painting
Painting outdoors in direct contact with the landscape, weather and changing light.
Techniques and materials
Broken colour
Separate touches of colour placed so the eye combines them rather than the painter fully mixing them on the palette.
Art movements
Neoclassicism
An artistic movement that drew on ancient Greek and Roman forms, subjects and ideals of clarity and order.
