Movement · 1860s
Impressionism
Impressionist painters used broken brushwork and changing light to show how a scene looked at a particular moment, often from unusual angles and with ordinary subjects. Their independent exhibitions in Paris began in 1874, in the face of harsh opposition from the conventional art world.
Where it came from, where it went
- Grew out of1860sRealism
Artists depicted contemporary life and labor without idealizing their subjects.
- This movement1860sImpressionism
- Led to1880sPost-Impressionism
Artists built on Impressionism while pursuing structure, symbolic color, or personal expression.
- 1880sNeo-Impressionism
Painters placed small marks of color side by side, drawing on contemporary color theory.
- 1890sAmerican Impressionism
American painters adapted Impressionist light and broken brushwork to local landscapes and daily life.
Artists
- Camille Pissarro1830–1903 · Danish-French (born in the Danish West Indies)
- Édouard Manet1832–1883 · French
- Edgar Degas1834–1917 · French
- Alfred Sisley1839–1899 · British (born and worked in France)
- Claude Monet1840–1926 · French
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841–1919 · French
- Mary Cassatt1844–1926 · American
- Gustave Caillebotte1848–1894 · French
- John Singer Sargent1856–1925 · American (born in Florence)
- Edward Henry Potthast1857–1927 · American
- George Hendrik Breitner1857–1923 · Dutch
- Joaquín Sorolla1863–1923 · Spanish
- William de Leftwich Dodge1867–1935 · American
- Robert Spencer1879–1931 · American
Circles
Exhibition · Paris · 1874
Impressionist exhibitions
The eight independent group shows, 1874-1886. Pissarro alone showed at all eight; Cassatt at four; Renoir 1874, 1876, 1877, 1882; Seurat and Signac only at the 8th (1886). Manet never exhibited with them.
- Alfred Sisley
- Camille Pissarro
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
