Actually, the Impressionist movement started as a revolt against the Salon for not accepting the works of Frederic Bazille, who complained to his parents in 1867 that he would never submit another painting for review. he died in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870.
However, a student revolt led to the first show of the "Societe anonyme des Artistes peintres,sculpteurs, graveurs,etc." The Premiere exposition as the catalogue described it, was held on the 15th of April, 1874 at 35 Boulevard des Capucines in the former studios of the photographer "Nadar". The artists who exhibited at this show were Pissarro, Monet, Manet, Degas and Renoir, Sisley and Morisot.
Accepted abroad in Berlin, New York and Chicago while still suspect in Paris, the impressionists fought for Louvre recognition under the leadership of Claude Monet, who spearheaded a subscription movement to buy Manet's famed nude Olympia for the nation. Accepted in 1890 after heated argument, Olympia was hung in the Luxembourg Palace, then the waiting room for the main Louvre collection. In 1894 the painter Gustave Caillebotte bequeathed the nation 67 prize impressionist paintings, had 38 grudgingly accepted for the Luxembourg, including Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette, Pissarro's Red Roofs. By 1911, opinion had swung round so completely that when Count Isaac de Camondo willed the Louvre 56 impressionist paintings (including Degas' Foyer de la Danse, Manet's The Fifer), they were accepted unanimously by the Curators' Committee.
2006-12-16 09:44:33
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answered by constablekenworthysboy 3
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Below is info on the painting that started it all and pretty much explains everything. It was the painting by Claude Monet that changed everything - read below. The go to the link below to see the painting
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Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise)
1873 (210 Kb); Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cm (19 x 24 3/8"); Musee Marmottan, Paris
Monet painted this picture of the sun seen through mist at the harbour of Le Havre when he was staying there in the spring of 1872. A sketch quickly executed to catch the atmospheric moment, it was catalogued as Impression: soleil levant when exhibited in 1874 in the first exhibition of the group (as yet described simply as the Société Anonyme des Artistes-Peintres). The word `Impression' was not so unusual that it had never before been applied to works of art but the scoffing article by Louis Leroy in Le Charivari which coined the word Impressionnistes as a general description of the exhibitors added a new term to the critical vocabulary that was to become historic. It was first adopted by the artists themselves for their third group exhibition in 1877, though some disliked the label. It was dropped from two of the subsequent exhibitions as a result of disagreements but otherwise defied suppression.
Monet's Impression was not in itself a work that need be regarded as the essential criterion of Impressionism, vivid sketch though it is. There are many works before and after that represent the aims and achievements of the movement more fully. Yet it has a particular lustre and interest in providing the movement with its name.
2006-12-16 08:37:02
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answered by Isabel 7
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