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Impression Soleil Levant – the Birth of Impressionism
Perhaps you have asked yourself one or two times how the impressionist movement came to be called „Impressionism“. In fact, painter Claude Monet was directly responsible for this name. And, in fact, it was meant as an insult for the raw, quick and seemingly unfinished style of the paintings shown in the „Painters, Sculptors, Engravers etc. Inc“-exhibition of 1874 You may probably know all of this but I talk about this nevertheless. Because – why not? Claude Monets painting „Impression, Sunrise“, shows the harbour of Le Havre, a french town in the Normandy where Monet grew up. Monet left the town in 1859 but would always return for a visit.…