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Impressionism and Contemporary Impressionist
Impressionist painting and its long afterlife, from the French founders to later painters who still work outdoors in broken colour.
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Impressionism outlived its Paris exhibitions of 1874–86 by a long way. Monet's village of Giverny drew a colony of American painters from the late 1880s. In the United States Childe Hassam painted flag-lined New York avenues, and John Henry Twachtman painted snowy, near-abstract landscapes. In Britain Philip Wilson Steer painted bright beach scenes, in Russia Konstantin Korovin painted Paris boulevards and Crimean harbours, and in Spain Joaquín Sorolla flooded canvases with Valencian sunlight.
For many painters since, the method has remained a living language rather than a historical style. Plein-air painters around the world still set up outdoors and finish a picture in a single session, racing changing light and weather. What links them to the founders is the priority of perception: loose, visible brushwork, colour mixed on the canvas as much as on the palette, and subjects taken from direct observation of ordinary places.
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