Impressionism

Impressionism can be understood as a temporary artists' association whose mutual and imperative aim was to outsmart the tyrannous rules of the French art world at the end of the 19th century, by exhibiting, selling and freely living off their artworks. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Pissarro, Sisley are famous names of artists who were first very close and who stuck together before progressively parting towards individual destinies so renowned that each of them remains familiar, in the same way that their paintings seem so close. Impressionism cannot be reduced to a strategic movement; even though these artists found the impressionist label too restrictive, they also thought it was synonymous with their will of freeing themselves and with the freedom of their gaze.