int a message” were similar, in many ways to the ideals held by the impressionists (Janson, 1992, p.57). Charles Suisse founded a school of art, the Academie Suisse, to provide an inexpensive and productive place in which aspiring artists could exchange new and progressive ideas. Here Pissaro, Monet, Guillaumin, and Cezanne first came to know each other, later becoming close friends. Academie Suisse provided a place to air new and controversial attitudes in the aritists paintings, that otherwise may have never been exposed to a traditional art world community (Pioch, 1996, p.1).In 1855, the second World Fair was held. A distinguishing element to this second fair was the focus on art. This served in highlighting Paris as the center of the art world. This was the place for artists to come to express new and innovative ideas. Among those attracted by the World Fair in Paris, was the group of young artists, soon to be labled, “the impressionists.”Impressionniste was printed for the first time in a French newspaper, Charivari, on the twenty-fifth of April, 1874 by Louis Leroy, after Claude Monet’s landscape entitled, Impressions: soleil levant, was seen at Exposistion des Impressionistes, an exhibition held in the salons of the photographer Nadar and organized by the societe anonyme des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs (Anonymous society of painters, sculptors and engravers).Paintings produced between 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques are called Impressions. Impressionism is more a state of mind than a technique, thus, artists other than painters have also been qualified as Impressionists. The Impressionists played a major role in establishing the idea that visual and expressive effects of a painting were more important than subject matter. Once this idea caught on, artists were able to express their personal view of the world more freely, and were able...
