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.

Inventing Impressionism, which addresses the original ... A little known critic, Louis Leroy, ridiculed the style in an article, suggesting an impression to be puerile subjectivity unworthy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That sale established a record for an Impressionist work at auction ... came to be the new movement’s namesake when critic Louis Leroy used it in a satirical review in the Paris newspaper ...