Impressionism originated in Paris, starting in 1870 going to 1890. When impressionism was introduced the artists where just coming from paintings and drawings of photo images and changing to subjects such as a ?Luncheon of the Boating Party? or ?The Prima Ballerina?. The subjects where no longer boring portraits of people but interesting daily objects. The aim of an impressionist was to capture the fleeting vision of joyful everyday scenes by using colour and light in which they created artwork that became famous worldwide. There were many artists that became impressionists but these are some that made impressionism famous and well known: « Monet « Pissarro « Renoir « Degas « Toulouse- Lautrec Impressionism was based on light and the subject that was being painted or drawn. Artists no longer stayed in their studios in there house to draw and paint but started to move into the town and paint as well as draw subjects that where interesting and that related to everyday things, which made the piece of art work a bit more interesting and effective.
Light was the main influence in the artist?s work, and when they where achieving the look they wanted it was light that made them pleased with their work. In there studios artists where seeing dull and boring things like people that they could paint a portrait of, photo images you could say, but then they saw how dissimilar and unusual it was to actually paint and draw something other then people that they decided to paint and draw other appealing things that they knew people wanted to see. Light was important to the artist. If they found a yacht that they wanted to paint, but the light was dull, they would either give up or sometimes paint the same thing repeatedly. This would give their paintings different effects on the picture each time as the light changed. One artist, painted the same thing repeatedly, each time the sun changed direction, and so did the effect on his picture, so...