IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionism is a art movement that firstly started in Paris in 19th century. At those times there was a Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) The Académie had an annual, juried art show, the Salon de Paris. The juries were looking for traditional standarts in paintings.  In 1863, the jury rejected Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) because there was a nude woman with two dressed men.

Just like Manet there were other  innovative artist's paintings that did not accepted for exhibitions. Because of that, the artists that had been rejected, decided to create a new Saloon called: Boulevard des Capucines. This Saloon brought a new vision to the people in France in 19th century and got more attention than the actual Saloon. The impressionist artistic style had its formal launching in 1874, when a group of Parisian artists from the Cooperative and Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptures and Engravers mounted an exhibit at the studio of photographer/journalist Felix Nadar. The name of Impressionism came from Claude Monet's painting called; Impression Sunrise(1874).

A writer Lois Leroy -that was writing about art- made up a name-Impressionists- for artists that had been painting "wierd" like this to humiliate.  They portrayed overall visual effects instead of details, and used short "broken" brush strokes of mixed and pure unmixed colour—not blended smoothly or shaded, as was customary—in order to achieve the effect of intense colour vibration.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
*Şenyapılı, Önder, Resimde İzlenimcilik Yılları ve İzlenimci Ressamlar,ODTÜ Yayıncılık,2011
*H. Rubin, James,Impressionism and the Modern Landscape, University of California Press,2008