Impressionists

OVERALL FACTS!

Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects.

Monet

Monet click here!

Claude Oscar

Monet was born in Paris,

France in the

November 1840.

Both his parents thought he would

be a failure because he

seemed lazy and showed no interest

in inheriting his father's grocery

shop.

Cassatt!• Birth name:

Mary Stevenson Cassatt Born: May 22, 1844(1844-05-22)Died: June 14, 1926(1926-06-14) (aged 82)

Renoir…

• Birth name: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• Born: February 25, 1841(1841-02-25)

• Died: December 3, 1919(1919-12-03) (aged 78)

VICENT VAN GOGH!

• Birth name: Vincent Willem Van Gogh

• Born:30 March 1853 (1853-03-30)• Died:29 July 1890 (1890-07-30)

(aged 37) Known as a post impressionist painter, taking ideas from the impressionists work.

Little appreciated during his lifetime, although his fame grew in the years after his death.

Van Gogh

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