- Impression, Sunrise
Infobox Painting
backcolor = #FBF5DF
image_size = 250px
title = Impression, soleil levant
artist = Claude Monet
year = 1872
type = Oil on canvas
height = 48
width = 63
city = Paris
museum =Musée Marmottan-Monet "Impression, Sunrise" "(Impression, soleil levant)" is a painting by
Claude Monet , for which the Impressionist movement was named.Dated 1872, but probably created in 1873, its subject is the harbour of
Le Havre inFrance , using very loose brush strokes that suggest rather than delineate it. Monet explained the title later:It was displayed in
1874 during the first independent art show of the Impressionists (who were not yet known by that name). CriticLouis Leroy , inspired by the painting's name, titled his hostile review of the show in "Le Charivari " newspaper, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", thus inadvertently naming the new art movement. He wrote:The painting was stolen from the
Musée Marmottan-Monet in 1985 and recovered in 1990. Since 1991 it has been back on display in the museum.Monet painted the sun as having almost exactly the same luminance as that of the sky, a condition which suggests high humidity and atmospheric attenuation of light. This detail relies on the use of
complementary colours and variety ofcolour temperature , rather than changes in color intensity or contrast of values, to differentiate the sun from the surrounding sky.ee also
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Rayleigh scattering
*Mie theory References
External links
* [http://www.kasrl.org/monet.html Will the real Monet please stand up?]
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