![]() ![]() His financial status enabled him to easily fund many of the Impressionist Exhibitions and to collect his friends’ paintings, both of which helped to stir a curiosity about the new art movement. This group could not have flourished without its own member Gustave Caillebotte. The Salon rejected this new style of painting that did not conform to its standards, so the artists responded by establishing their own group Exhibitions. Painters of the Impressionist movement (1870s and 1880s), embraced the art critic Charles Baudelaire’s idea of modernité by walking through the city to observe their ordinary surroundings, painting with loose brushstrokes to convey fleeting moments, and sometimes working en plein air to experiment with the effects of natural light throughout the day. This urban renewal, Haussmannization, impacted not only city infrastructure, but also the fine arts. ![]() During Napoleon III’s Second Empire (1852 to 1870), Georges Haussmann renovated medieval Paris into a modern metropolis. ![]()
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