Why Impressionism is interesting and worth your ... so much so that art critic Louis Leroy commented on the accuracy of the title of one of Claude Monet's paintings on display: Impression, Sunrise.

The word “Impressionism” did not exist at the ... The word, which was originally disparaging, was coined by the critic Louis Leroy, when writing about Claude Monet’s Impression, Soleil ...

“Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy ... that the painters were called “Impressionist” by Leroy, though the artists would not ...

but it also served as inspiration for the term Impressionism itself. It was this painting’s title that prompted Louis Leroy, an art critic, to use the word Impressionists when referring to the ...

It was a less-than-complimentary review by the critic Louis Leroy of this show that would ... “wallpaper in its embryonic state” and “Impressionism” being reclaimed. Now, Amsterdam ...

The crotchety contemporary critic Louis Leroy, reviewing the exhibition ... of a hand don't understand a thing about impressionism." It was Leroy, of course, who, in this same review, sought ...

The critic Louis Leroy denounced “The Exhibition of the ... on me so there must be impressions somewhere in there.” Impressionism was born. “Impression, Sunrise,” by Claude Monet gave ...

But it was one of Monet’s works—Impression, Sunrise (1872)—that cemented Impressionism’s legacy. In a review of the show in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari, critic Louis Leroy ...