But this year the focus will be even more pronounced as museums mark the anniversary of the movement’s beginning: 150 years ago when the French critic Louis Leroy used the word “Impressionist ...

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 current exhibition helps reanimate some of the early criticism of impressionism, a word that was floating around in various usages before the critic Louis Leroy used it to describe the work on ...

But it launched impressionism as a movement ... It was originally a term of abuse. The journalist Louis Leroy wrote a review in Le Charivari – a 19th century French equivalent of Private ...

Immediately after the National Gallery of Victoria was forced to close its French Impressionism exhibition prematurely in ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874 ... “The Exhibition of the Impressionists,” critic Louis Leroy lambasted the work, writing that “wallpaper in ...

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 ...