It stands out for its warm hues and sharpness, in the middle of the cold and foggy atmosphere of the harbour. It is undoubtedly the central point of the composition. Now let’s take a closer look at the painting, especially at the sun. French comment says ~: “ they started by terrifying everyone.” (A revolution in painting that begins with terror.) Caricature on Impressionism, on occasion of their first exhibit. He even entitled his article The Impressionists’ Exhibition, and added in his article that “ Wallpaper in its embryonic state is even more made than this marina.”, making fun of Monet’s quick touch, which gives the canvas an unfinished look.Ĭharivari – CHAM 1874. I also thought, since I’m impressed, there must be some printing in there. What does this painting represent? Impression! Impression, I was sure of it. In it, Leroy spotted a particular painting by Monet, and wrote:

Especially thanks to the ironic comments of the Charivari’s art critic, Louis Leroy, who wrote in 1874 a mocking article about this very first exhibition of the future impressionists. The title was given! Monet is not the first to use the term of “impression”, but his painting will popularize it. Edmond Renoir, who wrote the catalogue for the exhibition, completed it with “Sunrise”. “The landscape is only an impression, and instantaneous… I had sent something made in Le Havre, from my window, the sun in the mist and in the foreground some masts of ships pointing… I was asked for the title to put in the catalogue, it could not pass for a view of Le Havre, so I answered: “Put Impression”. Later, Claude Monet remembered this first exhibition at Nadar’s and confided to Maurice Guillemot, journalist of the Revue illustrée: Photograph of Nadar’s Studio, 35 boulevard des Capucines in Paris. A group of thirty artists, most of whom did not share the conventional views of the jury of the official Salon, decided to mount their own exhibition in the salons of the photographer Nadar at 35, boulevard des Capucines in Paris. He chose to exhibit it in April 1874, for the first exhibition of the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculptors and engravers. Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet, donated by Victorine and Eugène Donop de Mouchy, 1940 © Bridgeman Imagesīut let’s come back to the painting, which Claude Monet had originally named: Vue du Havre (View of le Havre). Impression, Sunrise, Claude MONET (1840-1926). Yet Impressionism, and its most illustrious representative Monet, would go down in history and influence a whole generation of new artists.

The choice of themes, the visible touch, the expression of movement, are some of the so many characteristics that shocked the critics of the time. Born in 1840, Claude Monet was at the origin, with his friends Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir and many others, of the birth of this anti-academic current in the mid-1870s. If this work is a milestone in the history of painting, it required only a few hours of work from Claude Monet and remains today a founding work for the career of this exceptional painter, one of the leaders of the Impressionist movement. Painted in 1872-73, it is undoubtedly one of Claude Monet’s best-known paintings, but also one of the best known in Art History since it gave its name to the Impressionist movement. During a visit to the museum, which holds the world’s largest collection of works by Claude Monet, I found myself face to face with one of his first masterpiece: Impression, Sunrise. One of the first museums to reopen after the quarantine was the Marmottan Monet Museum.

Impression sunrise by claude monet