IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Fr�d�ric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together independently. Edgar Degas and Paul C�zanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a time in the early 1870s.