Impressionism

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This paper briefly describes the origins of the Impressionist movement, the artists that best represent the Impressionism movement and how the movement, in essence, sought to create the illusion of forms bathed in light and atmosphere.

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"Although the term "Impressionism" was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet, the bitter controversy that raged for twenty years over the merits of Impressionism actually began eleven years earlier in 1863 at the Salon des Refuses, an exhibition held to accommodate the exceptionally numerous works rejected by the jury for the salon that year. It was here that Manet shocked the viewing public with his Dejeuner sur l'Herbe which helped to withdraw the curtain of classical illusion and brought the nude up-to-date. This form of "Impressionism" set the artistic stage for many years to come and influenced an entire generation of painters well into the 20th century. "

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