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Impressionism movement was developed in France in the late 19th century. Impressionism, or French Impressionism, was a school of the late 19th century that painted directly from nature using pure, broken color. As for Impressionism in painting it included a group of artists that rejected academic standards: Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro. The characteristic feature of Impressionism works is an attempt to record a scene accurately and objectively using lighter, more palette. Impressionists stopped utilizing muted browns, grays, greens, blacks for shadows, the compositions became more casual, the subject matter included landscapes, trees, houses, and even urban street scenes and railroad stations. Such opposition to traditional formal and contrived style of painting was not accepted by the French Academy's Salon, but despite of this fact Impressionists organized their own exhibition in 1874. The style existed up until 1880s.

Though Impressionism is known as a movement that dissolved at the end of the 19th century it's techniques are often used today by contemporary painters. The world of art has changed greatly, there are lots of new styles that have been developed recently. However, there are artists that are strongly attached by style introduced by impressionists. Such works can be found among the collection of contemporary artists worldwide. Ukraine is also a country known for a lot of talented artists. Browsing the site you will find the selection of contemporary Ukrainian painter Valeriy Klinko works. The style of these works can be characterized as surrealism, abstraction, abstract expressionism.

The difference between contemporary artists and their predecessors lies in the fact that with the development of the Internet the art market has changed greatly. The websites provide an opportunity to visit galleries virtually, buy art online, buy framed art appeared. The painters can demonstrate their works online offering greatly increased number of viewers an opportunity to visit the gallery. Buying art online implies a number of advantages: one can choose a painting easily at the comfort of one's home, you have an ability to view hundreds of works avoiding walking from one gallery to another.

www.klinkov.com website was also created to offer one such comfortable opportunity. You can find a painting for your taste; all the works are created by contemporary Ukrainian painter Valeriy Klinkov.