Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Impressionism named for this painting

Impression, soliel levant, 1872, Musee Marmottan-Monet

This painting by Claude Monet (painted 1873) is responsible for the name "Impressionism" for the famous art movement. Art critic Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review of the first impressionist art show in Le Charivari newspaper in 1874, and inspired by the name of this painting said "wallpaper in its embryonic stage is more finished than that seascape". The title of the review: "The Exhibition of Impressionists". The movement has been inadvertently named since.

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