They all had experienced rejection by the Salon jury in recent years and felt that waiting an entire year between exhibitions was too long. The artists we know today as Impressionists-Claude Monet, August Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley (and several others)-could not afford to wait for France to accept their work. The works exhibited at the Salon were chosen by a jury-which could often be quite arbitrary. At this time, the only authoritative exhibition was held by the Salon. The artist later remembered that he titled it in haste, They asked me for a title for the exhibition catalogue, it couldn’t really pass as a view of Le Havre, so I said: ‘Put Impression.

With other artists such as Cézanne and Degas, he had an exhibit whi. Claude Monet entitled his work simply Impression, Sunrise. For most of the nineteenth century then, the Salon was the only way to exhibit your work (and therefore the only way to establish your reptutation and make a living as an artist). Monets Impressionism, Sunrise is sometimes cited as the work that gave birth to the Impressionist movement, though by the time it was painted, Monet was in fact one of a number of artists already working in the new style. Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet sparked controversy mainly for its loose brushstrokes. This may not seem like much in an era like ours, when art galleries are everywhere in major cities, but in Paris at this time, there was one official, state-sponsored exhibition-called the Salon-and very few art galleries devoted to the work of living artists. The group of artists who became known as the Impressionists did something ground-breaking in addition to painting their sketchy, light-filled canvases: they established their own exhibition. Perhaps the best example of this style was Monets first greatly acknowledged Impressionist work, Sunrise, Impression.

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