Major Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters and works, and what set the movement apart from academic painting. Front: the artist or work. Back: brief description and significance.
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- Claude Monet
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Major Impressionist painter known for series paintings (Haystacks, Water Lilies) exploring light and color at different times of day.- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Impressionist painter known for soft, luminous treatment of light and focus on figure paintings and social scenes.- Edgar Degas
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Impressionist painter famous for ballet dancers and unconventional perspectives; emphasized drawing over color.- Camille Pissarro
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Impressionist known for rural and urban landscapes with disciplined small brushstrokes and emphasis on light and atmosphere.- Berthe Morisot
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One of the first significant female Impressionist painters, known for domestic scenes and portraits with loose brushwork.- Mary Cassatt
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American Impressionist painter known for intimate domestic scenes, especially mother-child relationships and tender moments.- Frederic Bazille
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Early Impressionist painter known for figures in outdoor landscape settings; career cut short by death in Franco-Prussian War.- Impression, Sunrise by Monet
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1872 painting of Le Havre harbor at sunrise that critics mocked, giving Impressionism its name when exhibited at the Salon des Refuses.- Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir
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1880-81 Impressionist painting of friends relaxing by the Seine; exemplifies the movement's interest in leisure and modern subjects.- The Dance Class by Degas
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Painting of ballet dancers and an instructor; exemplifies Degas' unconventional perspective and interest in movement and drawing.- Water Lilies series by Monet
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Late career paintings of Monet's garden pool showing progression toward abstraction and pure color over recognizable form.- Haystacks series by Monet
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Series of paintings of the same haystacks at different times of day and seasons, showing how light transforms the subject.- Impressionism - core principle
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Movement that broke from academic tradition by emphasizing immediate visual impression, light effects, and modern subject matter over historical or mythological scenes.- Plein air painting
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Impressionist technique of painting outdoors directly from nature to capture fleeting effects of light, rather than painting in a studio.- Broken color (Impressionism)
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Technique of placing unmixed colors side by side to blend optically in the viewer's eye rather than blending on the palette.
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