"Impression, soleil levant" By Claude Monet

Name: "Impression, soleil levant"

Painter: Claude Monet

Year:1872

Is the sunrise at the port of Havre, with a haze over the shipyard and the ships and chimneys in the background of the composition. The title of the work turns out to call the group of Impressionist painters In "Impression, Soleil Levant" the brushstrokes are quick because the light changes quickly and lost visual reference se.Apesar mist found represented, port elements such as cranes and ships. Reflections show the movement of the waters, which are clenched. The flat and two-dimensional composition, is influenced by Japanese art.

The work is in the Marmottan-Monet Museum in Paris, after it was stolen in 1985 and recovered in 1990