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Impressionism is a style of painting which began in France in the late 19th century.Impressionist painting shows life-like subjects painted in a broad, rapid style, with brushstrokes that are easily seen and colours that are often bright.he term 'impressionism' comes from a painting by Claude Monet, which he showed in an exhibition with the name Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise). An art critic called Louis Leroy saw the exhibition and wrote a review in which he said that all the paintings were just impressions. The word stuck.
In 1874 he exhibited the work independently of the official Salon in Paris, along with artists such as Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, cÃ©zanne And Camille. Pissarro impressionism subsequently became widely used to describe the style of painting practiced by these, artists who exhibited together eight times until. 1886he impressionists tended to be attracted to contemporary subjects, namely aspects of modern urban life and suburban landscapes. Several American painters, such as Mary Cassatt, Willard Leroy Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, also worked in the impressionist style in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.