Impressionism and Post- Impressionism

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Impressionism and Post- Impressionism
(60s of the 19th-early 20th c.)

Impressionism is an attitude towards painting more than it is a school and unites artists of varying intentions. In the 70s of the 19th c. a group of young artists - who called themselves realists - tired of having their work rejected by the Paris Salon and fed up with main-stream art of the end of the Second Empire in France, began systematically to exhibit together in Paris striving for affirmation.

They were searching for a new relationship towards light, colour and space - towards open air painting of village and urban landscapes (Guillaumin, Pissarro), in continuation of what their immediate predecessors in the Barbizon School had advocated.