Impression, soleil levant (French: "Impression, rising sun") is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the impressionist movement was named.
Dated 1872 but probably created in 1873. It depicts the harbour of Le Havre and was displayed in 1874 during an independent art show called the Salon des Refusés ("The Salon of the Rejects") organized by the first Impressionists (who were not yet known by that name). A hostile critic Louis Leroy, inspired by the painting's name, entitled his article "The Exhibition of the Impressionists" thus naming this new art movement.
Impressionism was intimately tied to the liberating effects on French life produced by the social and political events of the first half of the 19
Edouard Manet, a precursor of the Impressionists,Iexplained how he sought “only to render [his] impressions in his work.†Impressionism arose as a reaction of the Impressionist artists against the formal representative quality of the dominant academic artistic style of the day.
The emphasis shifted from the scene itself to the impression of a scene, and this impression was achieved through color, light, and brushstrokes.
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