Where land, sea, and sky meet. Sought-after and hugely popular in fine weather, the forces of nature are most obvious in storms. The cradle of Impressionism and more modern painting.
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It is hard to be sure when oil painting outdoors first started, but the oldest such paintings date from before 1700.
An innovator with his painterly style, some have suggested that he was even Impressionist – a whole century before Monet.
We should refer to European and not French Impressionism, although prior to about 1880 the hub of the movement was certainly Paris.
An illustrated index of the 61 artists covered in this series, with links to detailed coverage.
The main German impressionist painters followed the French Impressionists, with Liebermann and Slevogt continuing to use the style well into the twentieth century.