What is Impressionism?
"Impressionism is a movement in painting that originated in France
in the late 19th century. Impressionist painters were considered radical
in their time because they broke many of the rules of picture-making
set by earlier generations. They found many of their subjects in life
around them rather than in history, which was then the accepted source
of subject matter.
Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier
artists had defined, the impressionists tried to depict what they saw
at a given moment, capturing a fresh, original vision that was hard
for some people to accept as beautiful. They often painted out of doors,
rather than in a studio, so that they could observe nature more directly
and set down its most fleeting aspects—especially the changing
light of the sun".
(source: "Impressionism (art)," Microsoft® Encarta®
Online Encyclopedia 2001 http://encarta.msn.com © )
William Chadwick,
an American Impressionist
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