Editing Impressionism (section)

{{Short description|19th-century art movement}}
{{About|the art movement||Impressionism (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox art movement
| name          = Impressionism
| image         = Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant.jpg
| image_upright = 1.35
| alt           = The 1872 painting "Impression, Sunrise" by Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
| caption       = ''[[Impression, Sunrise]]'', an 1872 [[Claude Monet]] oil on canvas painting now housed at [[Musée Marmottan Monet]] in Paris. This painting became the source of the movement's name after [[Louis Leroy]]'s 1874 article, "[[s:Exhibition of the Impressionists|The Exhibition of the Impressionists]]", satirically implied that the painting was, at most, a sketch.
| yearsactive   =
| country       = France
| majorfigures  =
| influences    = [[Realism (art movement)|Realism]], [[Barbizon School]]
| influenced    = {{unbulleted list|[[Post-Impressionism]]|[[Neo-Impressionism]]|[[Expressionism]]}}
}}

'''Impressionism''' was a 19th-century [[art movement]] characterized by visible brush strokes, open [[Composition (visual arts)|composition]], emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Impressionism originated with a group of [[Paris]]-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in [[France]]. The name of the style derives from the title of a [[Claude Monet]] work, ''Impression, soleil levant'' (''[[Impression, Sunrise]]''), which provoked the critic [[Louis Leroy]] to coin the term in a [[Satire|satirical]] 1874 review of the [[First Impressionist Exhibition]] published in the Parisian newspaper ''[[Le Charivari]]''.<ref>The term "impression" indicates the direct impact of surface markers on spiritual perception or experiential cognition.{{Citation |last=Eisenman |first=Stephen F. |title=The Intransigent Artist or How the Impressionists Got Their Name |date=2023-12-22 |work=Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism |pages=149–161 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8501295.10 |access-date=2024-06-14 |publisher=University of California Press |doi=10.2307/jj.8501295.10 |isbn=978-0-520-94044-4|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as [[Impressionist music]] and [[Impressionism (literature)|Impressionist literature]].