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Impression, Sunrise

Impression, soleil levant

art material performance visual art artwork major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Claude Monet, artist

Canon Rationale

A major nineteenth-century painting, included for Impressionism, exhibition history, painting of modern perception, and the naming/reception of a movement.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 96.

Evidence

  • museum record: Musee Marmottan Monet collection context for Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
  • field survey: Smarthistory, 'Monet, Impression, Sunrise'.

Audit Flags

museum record bias, overfamiliarity bias

Sensitivity Flags

museum record bias

Completion unit: study the painting and its Impressionism-naming context.

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