Impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the formalism of the dominant Academic style. Its naturalistic and down- to-earth treatment of its subjects has its roots in the French Realism of Corot and others. Impressionism is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of light in a scene.
The movement's name came from Monet's early work, Impression: A Sunrise, which was singled out for criticism by Louis Leroy on its exhibition.
The core of the earliest Impressionist group was made up of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. Others associated with this period were Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Frederic Bazille, Edouard Manet, etc.
The Impressionist style is still widely practiced today. However, a variety of successive movements were influenced by it, grouped under the general term Post-Impressionism.
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