Impressionism
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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterised by visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unus
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, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", satirically implied that the painting was, at most, a sketch.
J. M. W. Turner's atmospheric work was influential on the birth of Impressionism, here The Fighting Temeraire (1839).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), Musée d'Orsay, one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
Catalogue cover from the First Impressionist Exhibition (1874)
Vincent van Gogh
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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks
Self-Portrait, c. 1887, Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh in 1866.
Van Gogh's home in Cuesmes; while there, he decided to become an artist
Kee Vos-Stricker with her son Jan c. 1879–80