Ed chats about the exhibition with the Scientific Director of the Musée Marmottan Monet and curator of the NGA exhibition Marianne Mathieu, and NGA Director Nick Mitzevich. five paintings by Claude Monet were taken his Impression, Sunrise among them along. In Paris, a themed exhibition celebrating the painting’s 150 th anniversary. As for the painting Impression, Sunrise, it would become one of the painter’s most famous works and a symbol of the movement. Rather, I’d say it’s perhaps more overlooked than hidden, given its location in the chic Passy neighbourhood in the 16 th arr. The artistic movement of Monet and his friends now had a name: the Impressionists. A description that’s often used to describe the Musée Marmottan Monet is that it’s a hidden gem. Monet: Impression Sunrise opens this weekend, the 7th of June at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra. The world-famous art works would be missing from the walls of the Musée Marmottan Monet for years. ‘Impression, Sunrise’ by Monet, which inspired the name of the Impressionist movement. It's showing alongside sixty other Impressionist pieces by a number of other significant artists in an exhibition that aims to examine the beginning of the 19th century art movement.
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Monet visited his hometown of Le Havre in the Northwest of France in 1872 and proceeded to create a series of works depicting the port of Le Havre. And it's not one to be missed-the piece is considered to be the founding work of the Impressionist movement, from which Impressionism itself takes its name. Impression, Sunrise is displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. The iconic work, which depicts Monet's hometown of Le Havre, rarely leaves its home at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. For the first time ever, Claude Monet's Impression, Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872 has made it to Australia.
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