Impressionist painting remains a particularly attractive period in the history of modern art and considered by many to be the most appreciated by the public. …The succession of exhibitions, the abundance of literary texts and record gross sales provide more than one indication of the extraordinary resonance today of the works of Impressionist painters, some of which are imprinted on our creative consciousnessIn their time, Impressionist works seemed so surprisingly modern, that it took their peers more than thirty years to admit them. In retrospect, as the years pass, impressionism comes to mind in these times, much more to affirm close ties with tradition and to represent the aesthetic acquisition of an artistic creation associated with realistic representation. This connection, considered for a long time as the most normal thing in the world, to which impressionism had given a revised definition based on "impression", would then lose its obligatory character with the evolution of fine arts in the 20th century. Isn't the lasting success of Impressionism attributed to the fact that we are sensitive to its modernity and traditionalism? Most likely, impressionism cannot be reduced to this unique aspect, it also seems to be a prejudice to paint the cheerful reality, that of leisure and beauty of nature, an endless journey to locate natural light... in a word solemn, a particular art of being that coincides with numerous activities of our society (impressionism and impressionist painters). From around the 1820s and 1850s, popular artistic movements arose in French painting. Initially, the artists of the Romantic Revolution such as Delacroix, then the realistic movement with the type...... medium of paper .......metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm>."Impressionism ." Encyclopedia of art: the search engine for fine arts. Network. January 29, 2011. "The Impressionists - Biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir." Biography.com. Network. January 29, 2011. "Paris Salon: Annual Art Exhibition of the French Academy, History: "Salon Des Refuses", Society of French Artists, "Salon Des Independants", "Salon D'Automne"" Irish Art : Encyclopedia of the visual arts in Ireland: History of painting, sculpture, printmaking: the greatest artists, the best museums, the artistic movements. Network. January 29, 2011. "WebMuseum: Impressionism." Ibiblio - Public library and digital archive. Network. January 29. 2011. .