Claude Monet's painting "Impression, Sunrise," first exhibited in 1874, established him as the leader of the Impressionist movement in France. The innovative style of Monet and the other Impressionist painters (including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul C zanne, and Camille Pissarro) broke from past traditions of figurative painting. Impressionists used short brushstrokes and juxtaposed color and light in new ways that captured...