Impression, Sunrise (1872). Few people saw affability: In 1874, the term commonly applied to Monet and his ilk was “intransigent.” Impressionism’s rom-com arc from spirited rejection to ...

“If there’s one painting that is the absolute icon of this moment and show, it’s Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise,” Kimberly Jones, curator of 19th-century French painting at the ...

Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise,” one of the most famous paintings ever created, will soon be at the National Gallery. A previous version of this article and its headline incorrectly said Monet ...

It’s Claude Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise.” Monet painted it in 1872, when he was still a young upstart. With a few dozen short, calligraphic horizontals of salmony orange, he rendered the ...

1. The Most Famous Impressionist Painting: Impression, Sunrise Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise is a masterpiece that paved ...

In 1872, Claude Monet sat down at his easel in Le Havre and painted what he would later call Impression, Sunrise. Critics initially mocked the painting for its visible brushstrokes and seemingly ...

It was a less-than-complimentary review by the critic Louis Leroy of this show that would give the burgeoning art group their name: Leroy describing how Monet’s Impression, Sunrise was less ...