Impressionism an art movement pioneered by a handful of avantgarde painters based in Paris in the 1870s gave academic oil painting a vivacity and spontaneity it had previously lacked and remains to this day the single most popular style of art for gallerygoers and amateur painters alike. This elegantlywritten book by a professional artist and scholar is both an instructional guide to incorporating Impressionist techniques into your own painting and an illuminating investigation into how those