Why we love Monet’s masterpiece, on view in the U.S. Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise,” one of the most famous paintings ever created, will soon be at the National Gallery.

Famously, of course, Impressionism was not greeted with love at the outset. In 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition was ...

A port, a garden, a mountain, a village, an island... These five places in France immortalised by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the 19th century have retained their legendary ...

Claude Monet, one of the most exceptional artists ever, the one who gave the world the beautiful genre of Impressionist art, is loved and revered in the art circles. He excelled at portraying the ...

“Impression, Sunrise” (1872-73), the painting that gave the Impressionist movement its name, is “a moment of breaking light and its reflections, ghostly boats cloaked in mist, dockyards ...

Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His Paintings of Them Were Some of His Greatest Masterpieces Completed more than a century ago, these artworks reveal the Impressionist’s ...

The Painting That Inspired the Term ‘Impressionism’ Debuts in America Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise” anchors an exhibition commemorating the birth of the artistic movement 150 years ago ...

Impressionism was born. “Impression, Sunrise,” by Claude Monet gave the Impressionist movement its name, after it was attacked by a critic when it was exhibited in 1874.

Monet’s ‘Impression, Sunrise’ (‘Impression, soleil levant’), painted at the port of Le Havre on the morning of November 13 1872© Musée Marmottan, Paris; Bridgeman Images ...