Lovian Museum for Modern Art/Monet Hall - Impressionism

The Monet Hall is an art gallery in the Lovian Museum for Modern Art, located in Newhaven, Kings. It features Impressionist art and is named after the French artist, Claude Monet.

Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari. The name of this hall is also derived from the famous painter.

Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, the inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

Reactions of the visitors
"One of the nicest rooms in the museum"

16:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC) "Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. (Matisse)" Lars 07:22, 28 January 2008 (UTC)