Impressionist

period: Impressionist The term "Impressionist" was first coined in the mid-1870s, as a
critically derisive term, of the light- and color-focused paintings of a small band of
Paris-based artists, the so-called "Salon des Refusés" (Salon of the Refused) - among them
Manet, Renoir, Degas, and especially Monet, whose "Impression, soleil levant" inspired
the name. The application of the term to music, from the 1880s, was a rather predictable
extension, though most composers to whom it was applied renounced its application - most
famously Claude Debussy, who claimed that those critics who apply it to music are
"imbeciles", and that instead he is simply trying to do "something different."