Art History Happy Hour
Claude Monet and the "Birth" of Impressionism
Oct 6, 2014 · 21 sec · Season 1 · Episode 21 · 48.7 MB
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In August, The Art Newspaper reported that Donald Olson, an astrophysicist at Texas State University, had pinpointed the exact moment that Monet painted his work Impression: Sunrise to 13 November 1872. The report described this moment as the "birth of Impressionism." In today's episode, we discuss the painting and unravel some of the problems of this claim.
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