Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of "movement" as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.

The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, "Impression, soleil levant" ("Impression, Sunrise"), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper "Le Charivari".

The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon followed by analogous styles in other media that became known as impressionist music and impressionist literature.

Radicals in their time, early Impressionists violated the rules of academic painting. They constructed their pictures from freely brushed colours that took precedence over lines and contours, following the example of painters such as Eugene Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner. They also painted realistic scenes of modern life, and often painted outdoors. Previously, still lifes and portraits as well as landscapes were usually painted in a studio. The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting "en plein air". They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short "broken" brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colournot blended smoothly or shaded, as was customaryto achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.

Answer the following questions:
1. Was this form liked at first?
2. where does the name come from?
3. Which one?
4. Where did this form start?
5. When?
6. What does it consist of?
7. Why wasn't it liked?
8. Did it follow traditional rules?
9. What were they called because of that?
10. Who were they following?
11. What else did they do?
12. What came after this art form?
13. What kinds?
14. Before this, where was art created?
15. Inside or Outside?
16. What phrase describes where they painted?
17. Did they hide their strokes?
18. Why not?
19. What else could be shown?
20. Were they large?
1. No
2. the title of a Claude Monet work
3. "Impression, soleil levant"
4. Paris
5. 1870s and 1880s
6. small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition
7. unknown
8. No
9. Radicals
10. Eugene Delacroix and J. M. W. Turner
11. they would painted realistic scenes
12. analogous styles
13. impressionist music and impressionist literature
14. conventional art community in France
15. they were usually painted in a studio
16. "en plein air"
17. No
18. They wanted to achieve an effect of intense colour vibration.
19. they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight
20. No