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Category: Arts JNR
Impressionism was a style of art that began in late-nineteenth-century Paris. It was concerned with depicting movement and capturing light in paintings. Impressionist artists included: Claude Monet, Hilaire Edgar Degas, Eugene-Louis Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Mary Stevenson Cassatt and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Impressionist paintings are worth millions today, but back in the 1800s when impressionism was born, people did not like these paintings. They were too different to what people were used to. From the 1600s until the 1800s the art scene in France was dominated by one institution, called the “Académie des Beaux-Arts”. It upheld certain requirements in French art with regards to style and content. People of this time generally accepted that art should only involve religion, history or portraits. Painting was taken very seriously and painters only painted indoors.
