Impressionism was painted in the late 19th century in France. In the spring of 1874 Claude Monet and some of his friends decided to have a showing of their art works. Among the Artist’s were Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Edouard Manet, and Camille Pissaro. The group became known as "Impressionist," A term applied by a reporter who said that Monet’s sketchy landscape ‘Sunrise’ reminded him of wallpaper. Monet developed Impressionism. As he pursued his goal, his technique became increasingly free, causing people to remark that the paintings looked unfinished. One of the paintings that looks unfinished is called "Water Lilies."

At first the term was applied to the styles developed during the last two decades of the 19th century by the French painters Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Seurat, and by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (known by his famous painting "Starry Night". Cezanne, Gauguin first used it in reference to a showing of paintings, and Van Gogh held in London in 1910. In their work all of the painters named, except Seurat, stressed a personal view of the visual world. Although the Post-Impressionists based their styles of accuracy of impressionism and its attempts to depict light. Like Vincent Van Gogh’s "Starry Night."

Impressionism, the paintings were done of quick movements in nature often showing the way light changes though out a day.

Post-Impressionism reveals A freely expressive use color and form to decribe emotions or movement.