Monet - Claude

The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) painted in 1872. Monet was once asked why he chose the title Impression for the work that became the critical flash point in the first Impressionist exhibition. He answered that he had painted his own impression of the spectacle of a blood red sun cutting through the misty atmosphere rather than a portrait of Le Havre Harbour.

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