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Claude Monet and the "Birth" of Impressionism
Art History Happy Hour
English - October 06, 2014 12:17 - 21 seconds - 46.4 MB - ★★★★ - 89 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.