Claude Monet (1840-1926): Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872 - Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting… The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown, and is his most famous painting of the harbor…
Impressionism can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris in the 1860s, its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States…