Why is "Two Dancers on Stage" by Degas an Impressionistic painting? Why is "The Little 14-Year-Old Dancer" by Degas an Impressionistic painting? They...

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that utilized "visible brush
strokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities...ordinary subject
matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and
unusual visual angles." In impressionism, freely brushed colors were of more importance
than line; the brush strokes, of "pure and unmixed color, were not smoothly blended,"
and, used thus, created "a different way of seeing." Impressionism was an art "of
immediacy and movement, of candid poses and compositions, of the play of light expressed in a
bright and varied use of color."