In the late 1860s, Claude Monet and his friends painted in a new style, called Impressionism by contemporaries. Impression, Sunrise is one of their most famous works. It was dawn in the harbour of Le Harve in France, the water turned orange or purple in the fog, the sky was occupied by blocks of red, orange or white colors. The whole painting reappear the effects of reflection on the water and sky.
Monet explained the title later:
“Landscape is nothing but an impression, and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a thing done in Le Havre, from my window, sun in the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in the foreground....They asked me for a title for the catalogue, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: 'Put Impression.'”
The painting was displayed in 1874 during the first independent art show of the Impressionists (who were not yet known by that name). Critic Louis Leroy, the critic for Charvari, inspired by the painting's name, titled his hostile review of the show in Le Charivari newspaper, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", thus inadvertently naming the new art movement. He claimed:
“Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.”
So, Impressionism found its name.
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