Impression(s), soleil. Proche et Moyen Orient d'une réalisation quelquefois bien singulière

d'une réalisation quelquefois bien singulière

Poetry and painting come together through the eyes of François Cheng

and placed within a larger cultural context

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

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Impression(s), soleil. Proche et Moyen Orient d'une réalisation quelquefois bien singulièreIn 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,