IWTI Task I .
Choose two art periods from the list above and write an essay. I have chosen the Impressionism and Post Impressionism periods for my essay. .
Describe the earlier period.

The Impressionism period took place between 1870-1890. The characteristics of Impressionist painters focused on the way that light portrayed objects. Impressionist painters used bright paint colors and short brush strokes. The Impressionists painted real-life scenes and subjects and often painted outdoors. The Impressionist painters wanted to capture the happenings of the everyday normal world and expressed their feelings which was captured in their artwork. During the Impressionist era premixed paint was introduced, which made it easier for artists to work outdoors. Some of the most famous painters from the Impressionist period are listed below:
Claude Monet – the most famous Impressionist painter. The Impressionism movement was actually named after Claude Monet based on his painting “Impression, Sunrise” which was exhibited in 1874. Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Edgar Degas. The social conditions at the beginning of the Impressionist Era were undergoing extreme changes in France. “Impressionism took root as a reaction against the government sanctioned academic painting that dominated French art in the first half of the 19th century. A.2 The Post-Impressionist period took place in the 1880’s-1900’s. The Post-Impressionist artists were highly influenced by the Impressionist artists. The Post-Impressionist artists strived to capture the emotion and had a more free style type of painting than the Impressionist painters did. Some of the classic, well-known post-impressionist painters are:
Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Henri de Tou