How does the subject matter favored by the impressionists differ from that of their precedents, the realists?

The impressionists painted scenes of pleasure and fleeting light, which was their favored subject matter while realist painted social criticisms.

Impressionist painters are more into the different emotions and expressing it compared to realists painters where they tried to paint the different issues that they notice in the society.

the FFV's were typically in the House of Burguesses, which was Virginia's government house basically.

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