Paris, the 1870s–80s

Impressionism

Painters who walked out of the studio to work in daylight — and brought back pictures made of quick, visible brush-marks, ordinary subjects, and the feel of passing time. The academy called their first show impression-ism as an insult; the name stuck.

3 walls · 8 pieces

It is only after years of work that the painter recovers the vision of childhood.

Henri Matisse, on seeing the Impressionists