Showing posts with label Impressionist Paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Impressionist Paintings. Show all posts

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Impressionist Paintings



Impressionism was one of the most important art movements in the 19th century that began when a certain section of artists from Paris began a public display of their art. This name was coined after the famous painting of Claude Monet. In the late mid-19th century, artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir began painting in a new style, which was later coined Impressionism. Monet named his painting of a harbor at dawn as Impression: Sunrise. This term was also used by a critic Louis Leroy in a satirical article in Le Charivari to describe the Paris-based artists.