- For the baseball player, see Louis Leroy. Louis Paul Leroy ( February 18, 1879 - October 10, 1944) was a Pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through
Louis Leroy was a French 19th century engraver, painter, and successful playwright. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. However, he is remembered as the journalist and art critic for the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari, who coined the term "impressionism" to satirise the artists now known by the word. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating Art. Their written critiques or reviews are published in newspapers magazines books and on web sites Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human Le Charivari was an illustrated newspaper published in Paris, France from 1832 to 1937. A neologism (from Greek neo = "new" + logos = "word" is a word that although devised relatively recently in a specific time period has been Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s
Leroy's review was printed in Le Charivari on 25 April 1874 with the title The Exhibition of the Impressionists. The term was taken from Claude Monet's painting "Impression: soleil levant". Claude Monet ( French klod mɔnɛ also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 &ndash 5 December 1926 was a founder Leroy's article took the form of a dialogue between two sceptical viewers of the work:
Impression I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it — and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! A preliminary drawing for a wallpaper pattern is more finished than this seascape.
The show (Exposition des Impressionnistes) was held in the salon of the photographer Nadar and organized by the Société anonyme des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs (Anonymous society of painters, sculptors and engravers), composed of Pissarro, Monet, Sisley, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Guillaumin and Berthe Morisot. Camille Pissarro ( July 10 1830 &ndash November 13 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. Claude Monet ( French klod mɔnɛ also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 &ndash 5 December 1926 was a founder Pierre-Auguste Renoir ( February 25, 1841 &ndash December 3, 1919) was a French Artist who was a leading painter in Armand Guillaumin ( February 16, 1841 &ndash June 26, 1927) was a French Impressionist painter and Lithographer Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 &ndash March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris
The term was subsequently adopted by the artists themselves and has now become the name of one of the most influential art movements in history.
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