2. How did it happen? In the 1870’s, painters began painting in the Impressionist style as a reaction against the strict style of the Realists. Impressionist painters were interested in the changing qualities of light and wanted to express that in a way that Realism could not.

3. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings: - Small, thin, yet visible brush strokes - Open composition, emphasis on the accurate - Depiction of light in its changing qualities - Ordinary subject matter - The inclusion of unusual visual angles.

4. Claude Monet Impression, Sunrise 1873

5. Claude Monet Self Portrait with a Beret 1886

6. Claude Monet Portrait of Jean Monet 1880

7. Berthe Morisot

8. Self Portrait 1885

9. Berthe Morisot Self Portrait with Julie 1887

10. Camille Pissarro Portrait of Felix Pissarro 1881

11. Guy Rose Portrait of an Algerian 1900

12. Guy Rose My Sister Maude

13. Guy Rose The Model 1919