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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.
1 Impressionism was a style of painting that used a more scientific analysis of colour to capture the effects of light in nature. 2  The main artists associated with Impressionism were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec.mpressionism and The Salon. CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926). 'Impression Sunrise', 1872 (oil on canvas). THE SALON DE PARIS. During the 19th century, the Academie acadÃ©mie Des Beaux arts was the pillar of The french artistic establishment and it held an annual open exhibition at The salon De. paris