Le Havre in Northwest France was Claude Monet’s hometown and during 1872 he visited the area regularly. During these visits, he would paint scenes in the area, including the port. The most famous of the paintings depicting the port was Impression, Sunrise.

The painting made its debut onto the art scene in an exhibition initially called Painters, Sculptors, Engravers etc. Inc., in April 1874. According to Monet, he gave the painting a title as he was asked to do so for the exhibition catalogue. However, he felt that the word ‘view’ was not an accurate reflection of the painting style. Therefore, he titled the piece Impression: Soleil Levant, or Impression: Sunrise, in English.

The term impressionism was used prior to Monet’s work, particularly as a way of describing the effects of the scene on a painter or the effect that paintings had on viewers. After the exhibition featuring Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, the term was applied in a different way: art critic Louis Leroy referred to it in a newspaper as the Exhibition of the Impressionist, and described the style of work displayed as impressionism. For him, Monet’s work represented this style perfectly. Thus, the movement of impressionism was born.

Internet: <www.monetpaintings.org> (adapted).

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The text shows that Louis Leroy was an admirer of Monet’s work and of the new artistic movement that Monet himself called impressionism