Impressionism

• 1860’s-Eduard Manet was really one of the first to ponder towards the impressionistic art. He was a looser painter and had an anti-academic style of painting. Focused on modern elements.

• 1874- Anonymous Society of Painters a group of artists in Paris, France created the Impressionism movement. According to the website www.metmuseum.org, the original founders were Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro, among others. The group was filled with independent artists that all possessed unique art techniques.

• 1874- Claud Monet introduced his painting Sunrise and it was criticized and accused of being an “unfinished painting”.

• 1870-1886- Morisot, Mary cassatt, Marie Bracuemond, the first women to venture into the impressionism arts. Mary casatt was actually an American women who moved to Paris.

• 1877- The third impressionism exhibition. This is where the group finally decided to call themselves impressionists. Important because this was the beginning of a new type of art.

• 1879-Vetheuil in the Fog was created by the most famous artists of the Impressionism era Claude Monet. This is an important date because the painting is arguably Monet’s best piece.

• 1879- Mary Casett began exhibiting for the Impressionism movement. She was a women from America who became one of the first women to join the movement.

• 1886- Last Impressionism exhibition- With the end of the impressionism era comes new forms of art being created by all these individual artists that were a part of the impressionism movement.

• 1874-1886 there were a total of 8 Impressionism exhibitions. A lot of the artist of the exhibitions believed they had mastered the “experimental” styles and ether retired or moved on to more challenging forms of art.