Monet’s Lily Pads at the Museum of Modern Art

Impressionism, a nineteenth century Parisian art movement, began almost by chance with the unveiling of Claude Monet’s famous painting, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, sunrise). The term Impressionism was applied pejoratively to Monet’s painting by art critic Louis Leroy in a review of the work, and since then adherents have gathered happily under that title. Monet (1840-1926), is credited with founding the movement which boasts names such as Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet.
These painters all built off one another and, [...]