Impression(s), soleil. Proche et Moyen Orient [2] 95-101 Groff

[2] 95-101 Groff

and placed within a larger cultural context

d'une réalisation quelquefois bien singulière

we find there the "profound truth of these "privileged structures of the human imagination

the imitation of the world was less a question of fidelity than of the ability to transmute the visible into color and light

Impression(s), soleil. Proche et Moyen Orient [2] 95-101 GroffIn 1872, Claude Monet painted this view of the port of Le Havre at sunrise from the Grand Quai, which would give its name to Impressionism. Alongside Impression, Sunrise and several other paintings by Monet, MuMa is bringing together some thirty works by J. M. W. Turner, Gustave Le Gray, Eugne Boudin, Felix Vallotton, and Raoul Dufy, all of whom worked in Le Havre and were interested in how they could each translate the fleetingness of a moment,