what is a technique used by french impressionist painter claude monet
'Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge', 1899 (oil on canvas). Impressionism was an art movement in France at the end of the 19th century. The Impressionists were a group of artists renowned for their innovative painting techniques and approach to using colour in art. Impressionism was a style of painting that used a more scientific analysis of colour to capture the effects of light in nature. 2  The main artists associated with Impressionism were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec.