Impression, Sunrise

Impression, Sunrise ( Impression French soleil levant) is a seascape of French painter Claude Monet in 1872, which gave its name to the style of Impressionism.

Description

The picture shows the port of Le Havre in the morning. In the background are ships at anchor, which disappear in the fog. In the foreground three small fishing boats are unclear to detect. On the water, the light of the rising sun breaks.

Monet painted the majority of the image with violet and blue, the sun's reflection on the water he painted with orange. As a structuring element of industrial plants and vessels are used in the background, their masts and shadow contours create linear structures. The picture is so evenly painted, that the appearance of spatial distance is clearly only by the slanted boats.

Monet dispensed composition and spatial effect. The aim of the presentation is the accurate representation of the current objective visual impression. The atmospheric impression is in the foreground and rejects the shape of objects. To realize his ideas Monet turned to a style of painting with small, short brush strokes, which makes the constant interplay of light and the flicker of the air clear.

The color is at times so thin ( translucent ) applied so that the canvas shows through. Only the reflections of the sun reach for the sky.

History

From 15 April to May 15, 1874 Monet introduced to Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and a total of thirty other artists from their pictures on their own, since they were mostly rejected at the Paris Salon. Most visitors were horrified by the experiments and bristled at such " graffiti ". The greatest sensation was caused Monet's image of the alleged most viewers, they could not recognize what was ever shown.

The criticism of the lack of implementation of the pictures that were nothing more than sketches, meant that the visitors failed to materialize and the costs could not be covered. Nevertheless, the term " Impressionists " quickly became common one and was deliberately chosen by the participating at another exhibition artists, when they gave her the title "Exposition of Impressionistes ".

Monet created this image from during a stay in Le Havre from an elevated hotel window. With its Skizzenartigkeit it turned something completely new and has been is this heavily criticized and frowned upon. Because of the high degree of abstraction, he did the painting not want to call the port of Le Havre and said:

"I should enter a title for the catalog; I could call the picture bad, View of Le Havre, 'I said: "Call It Impression. "

Prefer Monet would have titled all his pictures so.

On October 27, 1985 armed robbers invaded during the opening times in the Musée Marmottan Monet, and tore the picture Impression, Sunrise and eight other works of Monet from the walls. The images were found again until five years later.

Reception

Given the sketchiness the work was criticized heavily. For example, wrote the art critic Louis Leroy in 1874 after the first group exhibition:

" A wallpaper in the original position is elaborated than this seascape. "

He meant that the simplest wallpaper pattern was artistically sophisticated than this, calling also on the basis of this, the first group exhibition of the " Societe Anonyme Coopérative d ' Artistes - Peintres, Sculpteurs, engraver, etc. " as " exhibition the Impressionists, "which he gave its name to the whole style.

The British author Sr. Wendy Beckett writes:

" Officially, the Impressionism in 1874, born ', as this term is coined a relatively heterogeneous group of artists who exhibited this year at the Salon des Refusés. Many of the works had a very rough and unfinished in its spontaneity, what the critics angry. Although these artists were pronounced individualists with different ideas and goals, but they combined the desire to achieve a natural appearance, and their work showed a striking modern freshness and luminosity. "