The article deals with A. Fet’s creative principles, which are located in the plane of the principles of the art direction, which called “impressionism” in 1874. In the course of a comparative analysis of Fet’s poetry (“Osier”, “Spring rain”, “Bather”, “Bacchante”) and European impressionist’s paintings (K. Monet’s landscapes, A. Renoir’s “Baigneuse” (“Seated bather”), H. Sorolla’s “Bacchante”) elicited some archetypal shapes and motifs for this art direction, the manners of their reconstruction also. Had a shot to catch out the approaches of the world’s reproduction, which the artists felt subconsciously and readers and viewers catch further. The research discovered the paradoxes of a harmonious combination and mutual transitivity of statics and dynamics, which are inherent in the works of Impressionist art. The study raised the question of the antique sculptures (“Maenad” of Skopas) like the potential inspiration on the ideas formation and the formation of the impressionism artistic principles as a paintings as a poetry.