The 19th Century French Impressionist Movement - The Most Important Movement in the H

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The 19th century French Impressionist Movement is considered by many to be the most important movement in the history of art. This movement started with a group of painters centered in Paris in the 1860s and lasted for about 30 years. Up until this time French art was dominated by the French Academie des Beaux-Arts. The Academie valued 'realism' in paintings, which stressed carefully finished realistic-looking images, often with subdued colors (which were mixed and 'blended' rather that 'pure'), and of traditional style and content. The paintings were often done in studios, and the traditional subjects for them included portraits, and religious and historical scenes. They were made up of brush strokes that were carefully laid down in a manner so that the individual strokes could not be discerned in the finished work. The Impressionist painters broke with the Academie's methods, and were considered radicals in their time. They stressed open composition of scenes from daily life, rather than the traditional subjects favored by the Academie, and often painted outdoors, rather than in a studio.

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