Impressionism is very pretty and complicated. It was from 1860 to 1910. Monet is the perfect impressionist. Impressionism had its fundamental principles. Their subject was the upper middle class, the city and leisure. They painted en plein air, which means they painted outside. They painted in the snow, the rain, the storm, just to directly record the effects of light and atmosphere. They painted with strokes and strokes of pure color using a lot of white and rarely black. They recorded the changing play of light on the surface of objects and the effect of light on the eye without worrying about the physicality of the painted object. They were influenced by Japanese art and photography. One of Monet's works is called Les Nymphéas. The medium for this work is oil on canvas. Monet is an impressionist. It sets up pure colors and simply describes the water. He said, when you go out to paint, the impression of the scene is not the exact scene. I will approach post-impressionism using three works, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Still Life with Basket of A...