–giving name to the impressionist movement
The critics hate it. The subject of the iconic painting, crafted with loose brushstrokes, which suggest, rather than delineate, is a harbor in France, Le Havre.
Monet explained:
“Landscape is nothing but an impression, and an instantaneous one, hence this label that was given us, by the way because of me. I had sent a thing done in le Havre, from my window, sun in the mist and a few masts of boats sticking up in the foreground… They asked me for a title for the catalogue, it couldn’t really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: ‘Put Impression.’”