Impressionist Art
The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.
The most obvious characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of the effects of light and color. The intense and varying shades of the colors and the brush strokes set these artists apart.
The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edward Manet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together and independently.
Mary Cassatt did not particularly like the term "Impressionists" and preferred instead to call herself and her fellow artists "Independents".
