Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
In April 1874, about thirty artists who had given up on the official Paris Salon opened a private show in the former studio of the photographer Nadar. Among the canvases, a misty seascape by Claude Monet drew the mockery of the critic Louis Leroy.
By making fun of the title Impression, Sunrise, Leroy accidentally named the first great avant-garde movement of modern art. Here's how Impressionism changed the way we look at the real world.
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- 2Against the Academy: the scandal of 1863
- 3Painting outdoors: light and color
- 41874: from an insult to a movement
- 5What Impressionism changed
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary19 terms explained in a tap.
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