"style, and Monet’s ""Impression, Sunrise"" considered to encapsulate the start of the movement and its name. ""Impression, Sunrise"" depicts the port of Le Havre at sunrise, the two small rowboats in the foreground and the red sun being the focal elements. In the middle ground, more fishing boats are included, while in the background on the left side of the painting are clipper ships with tall masts. Behind them are other misty shapes that ""are not trees but smoke stacks of packboats and steamships, while on the right in the distance are other masts and chimneys silhouetted against the sky."""
"one of the best known Impressionists and a major character in Normandy's artistic heritage. His house and gardens at Giverny are one of the region's major tourist sites, much visited for their beauty and their water lilies, as well as for their importance to Monet's artistic inspiration. Normandy was at the heart of his creation, from the paintings of Rouen's cathedral to the famous depictions of the cliffs at Etretat, the beach and port at Fécamp and the sunrise at Le Havre. It was ""Impression, Sunrise"", Monet's painting of Le Havre, that led to the movement being dubbed Impressionism. After"
"a resident of Le Havre from the age of five, in 1872 painted ""Impression soleil levant"" (Impression, Sunrise), a painting that gave its name to the impressionist movement. In 1867–1868, he painted many seascapes in the Le Havre region (""Terrasse a Sainte-Adresse"" (Garden at Sainte-Adresse), 1867 ""Bateaux quittant le port"" (Boats Leaving the Port), 1874). The Musée Malraux houses some of his paintings : Waterlilies, London Parliament et Winter Sun at Lavacourt. Two other Impressionists, Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) and Maxime Maufra (1861–1918) also represented the port of Le Havre which also inspired Paul Signac (1863–1935), Albert Marquet (1875–1947), and Maurice"
"""during dawn, day, dusk, and dark and from varying viewpoints, some from the water itself and others from a hotel room looking down over the port"". ""Impression, Sunrise"" became the most famous in the series after being debuted in April 1874 in Paris at an exhibition by the group ""Painters, Sculptors, Engravers etc. Inc."" Among thirty participants, the exhibition was led by Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley, and showed over two hundred works that were seen by about 4,000 people, including some rather unsympathetic critics. In 1985 the painting was stolen from the Musée Marmottan"
"the waters of the harbour at Le Havre, that had given the movement its name. River scenes were very common among the Impressionists, especially by Monet and Alfred Sisley. The Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla painted many beach scenes, typically concentrating on a few figures seen close up, in contrast to the smaller figures of most beach paintings. American artists who painted beaches and shores, typically less populated, include John Frederick Kensett, William Merritt Chase, Jonas Lie, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, who mainly painted rivers and the canals of Venice. Towards the end of the 19th century the American painter"
"(Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers) to exhibit their artworks independently. At their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to give the group its lasting name. He was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet. ""Impression, Sunrise"" was painted in 1872, depicting a Le Havre port landscape. From the painting's title the art critic Louis Leroy, in his review, ""L'Exposition des Impressionnistes,"" which appeared in ""Le Charivari"", coined the term ""Impressionism"". It was intended as disparagement but the Impressionists appropriated the term for themselves."
"Winslow Homer brightened his palette with vivid oranges. In France painters took orange in an entirely different direction. In 1872 Claude Monet painted ""Impression, Sunrise"", a tiny orange sun and some orange light reflected on the clouds and water in the centre of a hazy blue landscape. This painting gave its name to the impressionist movement. Orange became an important colour for all the impressionist painters. They all had studied the recent books on colour theory, and they know that orange placed next to azure blue made both colours much brighter. Auguste Renoir painted boats with stripes of chrome orange"
"for the first time, often including cliffs and rock formations, which had earlier been mostly found in scenes of shipwreck. Many later beach scenes became increasingly crowded, as holidaymakers took over the beaches of Europe. Eugène Boudin's scenes of the beaches of north France strike a familiar note to the modern viewer, despite the heavy clothing worn by the ladies sitting on chairs in the sand. The Impressionists painted many scenes of beaches, cliffs and rivers, especially Claude Monet, who often returned to Courbet's themes, as in ""Stormy Sea in Étretat"". It was his ""Impression, Sunrise"" (1872), a view over"
"1873, in Honfleur, a port in Normandy which was home to many painters, and has been called ""the cradle of impressionism"". A friend of Jongkind, he regularly visited the ""Saint-Simeon Farm"", an inn in Honfleur, famous as a meeting place for artists and writers, such as Claude Monet, Eugène Boudin and Baudelaire, as well as Jongkind himself. Having settled, with his daughter, in Honfleur during the last decade of his life, Cals painted the harbor, the sea and its associated human life. At the invitation of Monet, he participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and 1876, until 1881."
"and so studied in Paris between 1882 and 1884, firstly at the Académie Julian, and then in the École des Beaux Arts under Alexandre Cabanel, where he became a follower of the Impressionist school. In Paris he was greatly influenced by seeing works by Édouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler and the French impressionists. When he returned to England, Steer established a studio in London and began to develop an impressionist style in which he depicted beach scenes and seascapes in a silvery translucent light. His painting of ""Poole Harbour"", completed in 1890, is an example of the outstanding atmospheric"
"(1929) about his water colour technique. With Fred Taylor, he wrote the book ""Water Colour Painting"". Frank Henry Mason Frank Henry Mason (1 October 1875 – 24 February 1965), RBA, RI, RSMA was an English artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings, and as a creator of art deco travel and railway posters. His style is described as 'light impressionist' and he was a founder member of the ""Staithes Art Club"" whose members are known today as the ""Staithes group"" of artists, or the ""Northern Impressionists"". Mason was born Frank Henry Algernon Mason in Seaton Carew,"
"his health in 1890. He moved to Wellington in 1891, where he was appointed as an art instructor at the Wellington Technical School. He lectured on art and conducted classes for the study of the nude figure. He introduced Impressionism of the Glasgow school to New Zealand and influenced other New Zealand artists such as Dorothy Kate Richmond, Maud Winifred Sherwood, Mabel Hill, Maude Burge and Mollie Tripe. Nairn’s Impressionist style is conveyed in his many paintings of Wellington harbour, especially in ""Wellington Harbour, 1894"" where his visible brushstrokes capture the effect of the afternoon sun on the water. He"
"Golden Age of Dutch painting, he typically composed his landscapes with a low horizon, allowing the sky to dominate. Johan Jongkind Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism. Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany. Trained at the art academy in The Hague under Andreas Schelfhout, in 1846 he moved to Montparnasse in Paris, France where he studied under Eugène Isabey and"
"style of work displayed, which he said was typified by Monet’s painting of the same name. Before the 1860s and the debut of ""Impression, Sunrise"", the term ""impressionism"" was originally used to describe the effect of a natural scene on a painter, and the effect of a painting on the viewer. By the 1860s, ""impression"" was used by transference to describe a painting which relayed such an effect. In turn, impression came to describe the movement as a whole. Initially used to describe and deprecate a movement, the term Impressionism ""was immediately taken up by all parties"" to describe the"
"Museum, San Diego Museum of Art and Portland Museum of Art in 1998-1999. On 27 October 1985, during daylight hours, five masked gunmen with pistols threatening security and visitors entered the museum and stole nine paintings from the collection. Among them were ""Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)"" by Claude Monet, the painting from which the Impressionism movement took its name. Aside from that also stolen were ""Camille Monet and Cousin on the Beach at Trouville"", ""Portrait of Jean Monet,"" ""Portrait of Poly, Fisherman of Belle-Isle"" and ""Field of Tulips in Holland"" also by Monet, ""Bather Sitting on a Rock"" and"
"shore. On the left, in the background, the cliff of Étretat can be seen and the rock strata are evoked by horizontal lines of brush. Finally, the upper part of the painting shows the sky, painted in a way that expresses a curtain of rain. Stormy Sea in Étretat The Stormy Sea in Étretat is an 1883 painting by one of the founders of French Impressionism, Claude Monet. The painting is now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. The painting depicts a stormy sea on a winter day. The cliff in the background is at Étretat (Seine Maritime);"
"Moonrise by the Sea Moonrise by the Sea or Moonrise over the Sea (German: ""Mondaufgang am Meer"") is an 1822 oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Caspar David Friedrich. The work depicts a romantic seascape. Three young people, two women side by side and a man further back, are sitting on a large boulder by the sea, silhouetted against the sky as they watch the moon rising to the east above a band of clouds. In the distance are two sailing vessels, ghosting on a light breeze towards the spectators on the shore. The painting is probably a view of the"
"Isle of Arran, son of Thomas Kay, a chief petty officer in the British Royal Navy, and Violet McNeish. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art. Primarily a landscape artist, Kay is best known for his portrayals of ""the glory of the busy shipping reaches of the Clyde"". He showed great originality, influenced by the emergence of impressionism of the 1880s. Active from the late 1880s, Kay achieved regular recognition at exhibitions in Europe. He exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1894, and at 1895's La Libre Esthétique in Brussels was awarded an honourable mention. In 1903 his"
"Johan Jongkind Johan Barthold Jongkind (3 June 1819 – 9 February 1891) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He painted marine landscapes in a free manner and is regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism. Jongkind was born in the town of Lattrop in the Overijssel province of the Netherlands near the border with Germany. Trained at the art academy in The Hague under Andreas Schelfhout, in 1846 he moved to Montparnasse in Paris, France where he studied under Eugène Isabey and François-Édouard Picot. Two years later, the Paris Salon accepted his work for its exhibition, and he received acclaim from"
"A Mediterranean Port A Mediterranean Port or A Sea Port by Moonlight refers to two 1771 paintings of the same subject by the French painter Claude Joseph Vernet. They are now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City and the Louvre in Paris. The two paintings form part of a series of fifteen works by Vernet showing port scenes. It was commissioned by Madame du Barry, who was trying to replace Madame de Pompadour as the greatest art patron among Louis XIV's lovers. Vernet was one of a circle of artists which gathered around du Barry. The paintings were intended"
"landscape, but impression, in the title given in the catalog for M. Monet's Sunrise. From this point of view, they have left reality behind for a realm of pure idealism"", typified by Monet's ""Impression, Sunrise"". Théodore Duret wrote that rendering idealized impressions instead of landscapes is what epitomises Monet's work and the impressionist movement. Considering ""Impression, Sunrise"" and Monet's work following the 1874 exhibition, Duret wrote ""it is certainly the peculiar qualities of Claude Monet's paintings which first suggested [the term impressionism]"". Claiming that ""Monet is the Impressionist painter par excellence"", Duret argued that Monet inspired a new way of"
"are hidden from view. The painting depicts four young men bathing in Falmouth harbour: one in the sea holding on to the side of a rowing boat, one standing up in the boat holding a cloth or towel, and two sitting in the boat, one leaning back at the stern sunbathing, and one leaning forward by the oars. The first three are apparently naked, while the fourth wears a blue shirt and brown waistcoat. The dominant colour, reflected in the title, is blue: the sky is blue above, with a golden sunlight creating glowing colours; there are clear blue waters"
"Frank Henry Mason Frank Henry Mason (1 October 1875 – 24 February 1965), RBA, RI, RSMA was an English artist best known for his maritime, shipping, coastal and harbour paintings, and as a creator of art deco travel and railway posters. His style is described as 'light impressionist' and he was a founder member of the ""Staithes Art Club"" whose members are known today as the ""Staithes group"" of artists, or the ""Northern Impressionists"". Mason was born Frank Henry Algernon Mason in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, County Durham, England on 1 October 1875, the son of a railway clerk. He was"
"Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. The influence of the Hudson River School and Luminism was focused on a western United States location about 1870 when Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) produced ""Sunrise, Yosemite Valley"". This grandiose example of the artist’s work was completed after Bierstadt’s third trip to the American west. It was added to the ACMAA collection in 1966. Another Hudson River School painter who headed west was Thomas Moran (1837–1926). Moran, famous for his paintings of the Yellowstone region of Wyoming, is represented in the ACMAA collection by his 1874 oil ""Cliffs of Green River"" (see picture gallery below). Nineteenth-century figure"
"at the event, to see it and be moved to increase British anti-slavery efforts. Placed next to the painting were lines from Turner's own untitled poem, written in 1812: The first impression that the painting creates is of an enormous deep-red sunset over a stormy sea, an indication of an approaching typhoon. Upon closer inspection one can discern a ship sailing off into the distance. The masts of the ship are red, matching the blood-red colour of the sky and the sickly copper colour of the water, which serves to blur the lines between various objects in the painting. The"
"Games. """" was painted by the leading English landscape artist John Constable in 1816–17. Constable had honeymooned on the south coast in October 1816, inspiring the painting. The painting now hangs in the National Gallery, London. Weymouth Bay Weymouth Bay is a sheltered bay on the south coast of England, in Dorset. It is protected from erosion by Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland, and includes several beaches, notably Weymouth Beach, a gently curving arc of golden sand which stretches from the resort of Weymouth. Weymouth Bay is situated approximately halfway along the UNESCO Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site."
"the sounds of boats, ships and wharf work, and the smells of the sea and harbour waters; as well as for the technical innovations evident in the remoulding of the natural peninsular landform from the hand-picked Argyle Cut to the ongoing levelling and terracing of the western slopes to the highly planned and mechanically created Walsh Bay and Darling Harbour docklands of the 20th century. The Precinct has long been a source of creative inspiration, being imaginatively depicted by painters such as Joseph Fowles, James Taylor, Frederick Gosling, Eugene Delessert, Rebecca Hall, Samuel Elyard and John Rae in the mid-19th"
"known of his early training. His earliest known works, ""Two Armed Merchantmen Leaving Whitehaven Harbor"" and ""The ‘Estridge’ Off Dover"" are dated 1800; the first work he exhibited at the Royal Academy was in 1802. Salmon settled in the busy seaport of Liverpool in 1806 and changed his name from Salomon to Salmon. Many of his marine paintings from this early period survive, and are housed in the National Maritime Museum in London. His ship portraits indicate he had a familiarity with sailing ships and an intimate knowledge of how they worked. These portraits tend to follow his traditional practice"
"the Museum of Impressionism, are major attractions in Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world. Monet has been described as ""the driving force behind Impressionism"". Crucial to the art of the Impressionist painters was the understanding of the effects of light on the local colour of objects, and the effects of the juxtaposition of colours with each other. Monet's long career as a painter was spent in the pursuit of this aim. In 1856, his chance meeting with Eugene Boudin, a painter of small beach scenes, opened his eyes to the possibility of plein-air painting. From that time,"
"By the Seashore By the Seashore is a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir completed in 1883 and now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Renoir made a trip to Italy in 1881-82 and was deeply influenced by Renaissance art. After this trip he began to explore a new manner of painting, different from impressionism. He started to emphasize contours and modeling, abandoned the principle that scenes should be painted outdoors to capture light and atmosphere. Late in the summer of 1883, Renoir spent about a month in St. Peter Port, the capital of Guernsey, and admired"
"known as a ""towser"" and woollen shawls. The work was probably painted on the beach near the old medieval harbour of Newlyn, shortly before the new south and north quays were constructed in 1885-6 and 1888–94, followed by a new covered fish market that opened in 1908. The painting was finished in early 1885 and exhibited to popular and critical acclaim at the Royal Academy summer exhibition that year, establishing Forbes' reputation. The success of the painting encouraged other artists to join Forbes in Newlyn, leading to the establishment of the Newlyn School. It is now owned by the Plymouth"
"Stormy Sea in Étretat The Stormy Sea in Étretat is an 1883 painting by one of the founders of French Impressionism, Claude Monet. The painting is now preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. The painting depicts a stormy sea on a winter day. The cliff in the background is at Étretat (Seine Maritime); Monet frequently stayed in the area during the winter of 1864-65, and wrote: ""I spend my time outdoors on the stone when it's big time [...] and of course I work all the time."" Monet composed the painting in February 1883 from his hotel window."
"in England, but on September 3, 1880 the ship ""Sorata"", with the painting on board, was stranded on rocks between Adelaide and Melbourne, drawing water into its hold to a depth of 5.5 metres. Much of the cargo was salvageable, but the artwork was completely encrusted by a white layer. It looked as if the sea water had decomposed the color particles. In this condition Prof. Francis Rouleaux, director of the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (Berlin) and Commissioner General for the German Empire, took it to Melbourne, Australia. When the Melbourne International Exhibition was prepared in 1880, the art"