You may be familiar with some of the most famous impressionists, but do you know the origin of the term "impressionism"?
You may be familiar with some of the most famous impressionists, but do you know the origin of the term "impressionism"? In 1874, a group of 30 artists—Paul Cèzanne, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet among them—mounted an exhibition in the studio of Nadar, a pioneering figure in the history of photography. It was not a hit with the critics, and one dubbed the group Impressionists after seeing Monet’s contribution: a landscape painting title Impression, Sunrise.