Impression, Sunrise (Great Art)

IMPRESSION, SUNRISE (Claude Monet, French, 1872)

In 1872 French artist Claude Monet visited his hometown, Le Havre, a port on France's northwestern coast. There he painted a series of six canvases representing the port at different times of day and seen from different points of view. One of these, Impression, Sunrise, was included in the first exhibition of what became Impressionism, and this painting typified the style. (By using this title, Monet may have been anticipating criticism that the painting seemed unfinished.) Some say this canvas changed the art world.

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