The pioneers of modern art were Romantics, Realists and Impressionists. This is especially true for Impressionists and Fauvism. Most of the artists in Fry's exhibition were younger than the Impressionists. I have some Impressionists, some Picassos from every period, some mobiles by Calder. Federico Zandomeneghi was another Italian friend of Degas who showed with the Impressionists. The line would stick with him, thanks to generations of impressionists and Looney Tunes parodies. In 2006, Condou appeared as Renoir in the BBC drama "The Impressionists". This helped make the French Impressionists and others familiar to the Viennese public. Like the Impressionists, he employed nature as an artistic resource. Like the European Impressionists, they painted in the open air. The influence of the French Impressionists lasted long after most of them had died. Brown was generally hated by the French impressionists, who preferred bright, pure colors. Hassam eventually became one of the group of American Impressionists known as "The Ten". The group soon became known as the Impressionists.