The Impressionist movement, although not exclusively made up of French people�Â, started in France. When the four students of academic painter Marc Gleyre came together to discuss art, the Impressionist movement was born. Painters Monwr, Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille met with other artists(Cezanne, Pissarro, Morisot. Later Degas, Maet, and critics such as Duret and Riviere and art dealer Durand-Ruel,) to discuss academic standards and to later react to the Romantic’s emphasis on emotion as a singular subject matter. The artists rejected the role of the imagination, and based their works more on the literal, but not the scientific. They studied nature as a phenomena, and painted people as they were. The aims of impressionism was to suggest rather than depict. Impressionist were those who tried to suggest and depict meaning rather than blatenly describe. Impressionism was not taken well with the general public, who were still caught up with the Romantic movement. They found impressionism to be too radical for their tastes.