Impressionism was created by the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, during 1874 in Paris, France. The group was merged by its independence from the Salon, where judges from the Acadé des Beaux-Arts chose pieces of artwork and distributed awards. Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and one of the many founders of the Impressionism era. Two things I found interesting about him were that he didn't not like to follow the standard ways of landscape painting, and didn’t use the traditional techniques of landscape painting, and sold charcoal caricatures in the local