What was the impressionist movement?

Answer 1

Impressionism came as a reaction to the dramatic styles of the romantic art period. It was lighter and tried to create a feeling in its listeners/viewers. Claude Debussy composed most of the music of the impressionism movement in music. Maurice Ravel also composed in this style.

Answer 2

a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of 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 satiric review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), common, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

Answer 3

It was first exhibited in 1874 and is very well known today.