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Impression, Sunrise
Realism & Impressionism

Light & the Everyday

Painters flee the studio to chase real life and real light.

🔍 How to spot it

Three giveaways that tell you what you're looking at — even for a painting you've never seen. Each detail below is magnified from the work named beside it.
1

Broken colour. Small separate dabs of unmixed paint that only blend in your eye, not on the palette.

detail from Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet
detail of Impression, Sunrise ⤢
2

No black in shadow. Shadows are blue, violet and green — colour, never grey mud.

detail from Water Lilies — Claude Monet
detail of Water Lilies ⤢
3

Snapshot framing. Figures cropped by the frame, off-centre — modern leisure caught like a photograph.

detail from The Dance Class — Edgar Degas
detail of The Dance Class ⤢
💡 Separate dabs of pure colour, blue shadows, and a life-caught-mid-moment crop.
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The works

7 paintings in this chapter.

Olympia
Olympia
Édouard Manet · 1863
The Gleaners
The Gleaners
Jean-François Millet · 1857
Impression, Sunrise boss
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet · 1872
Water Lilies
Water Lilies
Claude Monet · c. 1906
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1880–81
The Dance Class
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat · 1884–86