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Impression, Sunrise
1860 – 1900

Impressionism

Painters chasing fleeting 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
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2

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

detail from Water Lilies — Claude Monet
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3

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

detail from The Dance Class — Edgar Degas
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The works

10 paintings in this chapter.

Impression, Sunrise boss
Impression, Sunrise
Claude Monet · 1872
The Cradle
The Cradle
Berthe Morisot · 1872
The Dance Class
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Woman with a Parasol
Woman with a Parasol
Claude Monet · 1875
The Floor Scrapers
The Floor Scrapers
Gustave Caillebotte · 1875
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Gustave Caillebotte · 1877
Snow at Louveciennes
Snow at Louveciennes
Alfred Sisley · 1878
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1880–81
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Édouard Manet · 1882