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France and Impressionism

The Impressionists did not choose their name - it was foisted upon them in 1874 by a critic hostile to their work.

How ever the name soon stuck and was used to describe a group of artists who never intended to be a unified radical movement, who never set out to shock or to be revolutionaries. What they had in common was that they were all in Paris in the early 1860s and quickly got to know each other - some in art schools which they would meet and realized that they shared a desire to paint the landscape, cityscape, and modern life in new ways.

The first Impressionist exhibition

The first Impressionist exhibition took place because none of these artists had achieved any regular success at the official Salon, the major venue for the Paris art market, whose juries were notoriously inconsistent and reactionary.

The first exhibition by this gro