What is impressionism?
Impressionism is an art-style firstly used in France in the year 1874.
The term 'impressionist' was introduced by French art critic Louis Leroy in 1874 based on Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise.
Leroy found the term fitting to describe the loose, undefined and "unfinished'' style that Monet and several other artists applied to their paintings.

Monet, who was he?
Claude Monet (Officially: Oscar-Claude Monet) was a French impressionist painter. He was born on the 14th of November 1840 and died on the 5th of December 1926. He was born in Paris, but in 1845 he and his family moved to Normandy. When he travelled to Paris to visit the Louvre he saw a lot of painters copying the work of the old masters, be he sat in front of a window, coping what he saw outside instead.

How can you describe impressionism?
Impressionist paintings are made up out of very thin brush strokes, the very detailed, sometimes changing, lights, inclusion of movement and unusual visual angles.