Impressionism

Impressionism A major movement or style in French painting, beginning around 1870, in which effects of light are represented using dabs or short strokes of pure unmixed colors, letting the viewer's eye (coupled with distance) fuse them into a whole. First use of the word »impressionism« was in 1874 in the periodical Le Charivari, intended as a slight or insult, from the title of one of Monet's (1840–1926) paintings »Impression: Lever du jour« shown in the first of the nearly annual group shows…