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=Kevin's Wiki on Impressionism=

 1.Impressionism Impressionism, French Impressionnisme, a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. Following persons further down are the creators of impressionism.

2. Art in the Impressionism in general 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. Impressionist motto was human eye is a marvelous instrument. Impact worldwide was lasting and huge. The name 'Impressionists' came as artists embraced the nickname a conservative critic used to ridicule the whole movement.

3.Monet Claude Monet was a french painter born in Paris. He started out by paiting landscape. He always stood outside while he was painting his work. He ment that the pictures should be complete on the scene. Because of the colour and the change of light in the nature he ment he had to work fast with the paintings. He said once that he wanted to be born as a blind man and retrieve his sight againt so he that he didn't know what he was paiting. He often painted with same motivation but with different colour and view of light. His way of painting was/is called impressionism.

4.Renoir Pierre Auguste Renoir was a french artist who was a leading painter in the development of the impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially of beauty, and espeially feminine sensuality, it has been said that he was final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Peter Paul Ruben to Antonie Watteau.

5.Pissarro Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post Impresionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cezanne and Paul Gaugin.

6. Music in the Impressionism in general Impressionism in music, a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th cent. It was begun by Debussy in reaction to the dramatic and dynamic emotionalism of romantic music, especially that of Wagner. Reflecting the impressionist schools of French painting and letters, Debussy developed a style in which atmosphere and mood take the place of strong emotion or of the story in program music. He used new chord combinations, whole-tone chords, chromaticism, and exotic rhythms and scales.

7.Debussy Claude Achille Debussy. He was a french componist and counted as one of foundation of impressionism in classic music. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions.

8.Ravel Joseph Marurice Ravel was a french componist, probably most known for his work Bolero. He got never married but had alot of long lasting relationships. Known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.

9.Vaughan Williams Vaughan Williams was a rich english componist. His creation contained symphati, operah, and filmmusics. He was also a important collector of english folksongs.

10.Delius Frederick Delius was a German-English composer. He spent much of his adulthood in St. Johns Country, Florida. His timein the US influenced his music, especially his interest in African-American spirituals and folk music. Delius's musical style is unusual in Western music. Characterized by a curious mixture of pentatonic figures and chromaticism, althrough still largely tonal, it reflects a move from the textbokk post-romanticism of the years following the death of Richard Wagner to a style that was unique to Delius, blending impressionism with the slightly older post-romanticism and northern European and African-American folk idioms.