The narrative style in this table was brand new. He tried to create the effect that the orange sun lights reflected in the light wavy water quickly change color. Monet, caught the moment when the sun began to shine orange. In almost all of his works, Monet tried to describe the shadows in the water and the reflections of light. The painter sometimes applied colors with intense brush strokes. The painting was not telling the scene but the moment.
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Monet was interested in the changing nature of light rather than pictorial content. Blue and gray-blue tones were used in the sky. Orange tones were used for reflection in the sun and water. Monet's palette was almost focused on the blue and orange relationship that complemented each other. Monet applied the thinned paint with light brush touches to describe the morning impressions. In the background, the steaming chimneys with the masts of the ships were vaguely noticeable in the fog. The port of Le Havre on the Normandy coast seemed to be covered in the morning mist. The name of the Impressionist style was thus seated.Īs can be seen in "Impression, Sunrise“, the point of departure of impressionism was light. The title of Leroy's critique was the exhibition of Impressionists. Louis Leroy named Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" as the name of the whole group. The art critic Louis Leroy wrote the most serious critique of the exhibition. Even though the views of the critics on the exhibition are divided into two, the name of the new trend movement came from this exhibition.
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Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" in his work were among the exhibits. Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" was among those exhibited. In 1874, this artist organization opened its first exhibition, which lasted one month, at Boulevard des Capucines in the studio of photographer Nadar. They decided to open an exhibition organized and financed by them. In late 1873, a group of painters, including Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Sisley, and Pissarro, gathered together.
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Impression, Sunrise, 1872, Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cm, Musée Marmottan, Paris, France.