It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to deride...
L'impressionnisme reste sans doute la p riode la plus fascinante de l'histoire de l'art des Temps modernes, ainsi qu'une des plus pris es du public, comme le montrent les expositions spectaculaires de ces derni res ann es - Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec,...