They are Impressionists in the sense that they depict not the landscape but the sensation produced by the landscape." 4 Once the impression has been discerned and set down, they declare their task finished.If we are to describe them with a single word, we must invent the new term Impressionists. is their decision not to strive for detailed finished, but to go no further than a certain overall aspect. "The shared point of view that makes them a group with a collective force of its own. In a supportive review published a few days later in Le Siècle on 29 April 1874, Jules Castagnary was the first art critic to use the term Impressionism in a positive way: Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape." 3 and what freedom, what ease of workmanship. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it. What does the canvas depict? Look at the catalogue. "A catastrophe seemed to me imminent, and it was reserved to M. In his review published on 25 April 1874, Leroy wrote: In his review of the exhibition, the art critic for Le Charivari, Louis Leroy, used the title of Monet's painting as the headline, calling it the "Exhibition of Impressionists." Leroy had meant it sarcastically as the term "impression" was used "to describe a rapidly notated painting of an atmospheric effect, artists rarely, if ever exhibited pictures so quickly sketched" 2. The exhibition was held from 15 April to in the former studio of the photographer Nadar (Félix Tournachon) at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, a fashionable address 1. They called themselves the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc ( Société Anonyme des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc.) and included artists who are now world famous such as Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Morisot, and Cézanne. Monet and a group of about 30 other artists, frustrated by restrictions and politics of the official annual art salon, had decided to hold their own independent exhibition, an unusual thing to do at the time. Monet exhibited the painting he titled Impression: Sunrise in what we now call the First Impressionist Exhibition, in Paris. What's the Big Deal About Monet and His Sunrise Painting?
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