Impressionist movement can be regarded as the peak of naturalism tendency in19th century, and also as the starting point of modern art. Impressionist painting mainly focuses on external painting, which weakens the role of theme and expands interest to subjects that were previously considered difficult to deal with. Impressionist painting aims to reproduce the instantaneous relationship between light and color of natural objects, which basically belongs to a painting style. In this sense, impressionism is the development of baroque style, the extension of realistic visual experiment, and the peak of the development of "reproducible" traditional painting since the Renaissance. The pre-impressionist masters mainly include Monet, Degas and Renoir.

post-impressionism

/kloc-at the end of 0/9, some painters inspired by Impressionism began to oppose Impressionism. Their creation transcends the limited light and color expression of Impressionism. They don't like the over-objective attitude adopted by impressionist painters in describing the fleeting effects of light and color changes in nature. They believe that the artistic image should be different from the objective image and full of the artist's subjective feelings. Post-impressionist painting deviated from the western artistic tradition of objective expression, and enlightened two modernist artistic trends of thought, namely, abstract art that emphasized structural order (such as cubism and stylism) and expressionism that emphasized subjective feelings (such as brutalism and German expressionism). Therefore, in the history of art, post-impressionism is called the origin of western modern art, and its main representatives are Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin.