Impressionists
OVERALL FACTS! 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.
Monet click here! Claude Oscar Monet was born in Paris, France in the November Both his parents thought he would be a failure because he seemed lazy and showed no interest in inheriting his father's grocery shop.
Cassatt! Birth name: Mary Stevenson Cassatt Born: May 22, 1844( ) Died: June 14, 1926( ) (aged 82)
Renoir… Birth name: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Born: February 25, 1841( ) Died: December 3, 1919( ) (aged 78)
VICENT VAN GOGH! Birth name: Vincent Willem Van Gogh Born:30 March 1853 ( ) Died:29 July 1890 ( ) (aged 37) Known as a post impressionist painter, taking ideas from the impressionists work. Little appreciated during his lifetime, although his fame grew in the years after his death. Van Gogh
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