In 1874, fifty-five artists held the first independent group show of Impressionist art. The unfriendly reviewer Louis Leroy to a canvas by Claude Monet first applied the name impressionism in 1874; it has come to be used very freely. In easiest terms, French Impressionism was an especially undersized, avant-garde movement whose affiliates tested from 1870 to 1880 with painterly habits to attain light on canvas. Impressionism entails a certain technique, primarily the acquirement of light on canvas through the use of pure, lurid, bright colours, and such stylistic and compositional elements as a shallow, two-dimensional space, occupied by compressed forms,...
saw, strangely enough learn how to achieve the desired effect by examining artistic precedent, Japanese sources. Impressionism was a major turning point away from traditionalism in art. Subject matter, technique and overall composition were all radically changed. Without Impressionism today's art would be very different as Impressionism inspired many of the movements that combine to make modern art. For its time Impressionism was a quite avante garde however in our context it is viewed as merely a way of painting, to go back and experience just how out of place Impressionism was in France during that time would be incredible.