Paris museum takes visitors back 150 years to Impressionism's birth
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Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s.
52 artworks by Impressionist masters Cézanne and Renoir are on display in a new exhibition in Milan to mark the 150th anniversary..