An Introduction to Impressionism
The Luncheon by Claude Monet, 1873.
Oil on canvas.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
The style of painting known as Impressionism which started in Paris France in the later part of the 1860s, began to flourish in the earlier part of the 1870s and lasted through the 1880s. At first, it did not prove to stand out or to possess anything that would make it different from the other painting styles. It was, however, like all the other painting techniques, was eventually accepted and recognized by both critics and art lovers in that period.
