Description
Claude Monet – Impression Sunrise
| Year of creation: | 1872 |
| Original size: | 63 cm x 48 cm |
| Paint style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Museum Marmottan, Paris |
Oil on canvas Impression Sunrise is a typical example of the then new style of painting, impressionism. In this painting, Monet depicted the port of Le Havre in France. ImpressionSunrise is an important painting, as the Impressionism movement is named after it.
The oil painting shows a view of the sunrise over Havre Harbor through the fog. Straight-forward brushstrokes depict a blurred background in the morning mist, and multicolored colors give the water an endless glow. It truly shows the visual impression given to the painter by the light and color of the French port city at sunrise. Breaking the shackles of traditional painting methods, as a critic he borrowed the title of this painting to mock the group of young painters represented by Monet who demanded innovation and creativity as “impressionism”, the name given to this school of painting. The painting was exhibited at the 1st Joint Exhibition of the Impressionists, which opened on March 25, 1874, and this work is the most typical of Monet’s paintings.
Author: Claude Monet (1840-1926), a French impressionist painter, is a typical painter of ambient light and completes most of his works on site. In order to study the changes in sunlight, he painted the same scene several times, such as his series “The Haystacks” and “Church”. During the Franco-Prussian War, he took refuge in the Netherlands and studied Japanese ukiyo-e prints, which led to a change in his painting style. In his later period, he made huge scrolls of “Water Lilies”, which became the greatest masterpiece of Impressionist landscape painting.
