“They asked me for a title for the catalog, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: ‘Put Impression. When Monet was asked to name his painting, he accidentally coined a term that defined the movement. The painting depicts a morning sunrise in the port, a kind of symbol of the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley, all contributed work painted in a new style, focused on light, and usually painted outside, thanks to the recently invented portable paint tube. Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise was painted by him on a morning while the artist was in Le Havre, the city of his childhood. Two years later, Monet was organizing an independant exhibition of artists who were experimenting like him. Featuring Claude Monet’s pioneering painting Impression, Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872, from which Impressionism takes its name, this exclusive ex. Often referred to as the Father of Impressionism, Monet was one of the movement's most prominent members. In his words, Monet painted “during dawn, day, dusk, and dark and from varying viewpoints, some from the water itself and others from a hotel room looking down over the port.” It was practice-an experiment. Unlike most genres, which develop over time, Impressionism is believed to have started in the 1870s with a single work: Impression, Sunrise, a light and airy landscape painting by none other than Claude Monet. Monet was interested in light, and threw himself into the study of reflections of light on water, with the port as his subject. But in 1872, when Claude Monet was painting a hazy interpretation of the seaport in his hometown of Le Havre in France, the birth of a movement was far from his mind. Name: Impression, Sunrise (1873) Artist: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Medium: Oil painting on canvas. Sunrise', which gave the name to the whole movement and phenomenon in the world of painting. Collectors and passionate fans of Claude Monet are now paying a lot of money for the directory where number 98 is the painting 'Impression. Today, Impressionism is one of the most beloved movements in Western Art. The artist came up with: 'Ill call her 'Impression'.
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