In 1874 an artist showed one of their paintings at an exposition hosted by a photographer. That seemed very odd at that time. Photographs and paintings are two different things. One is created with photography, one with paint. But this was not what needed to be recognized.
Have you ever taken a picture of a person and their eyes were closed? Yet when you took the picture they didn’t appear to be? Photographs are taken in a millisecond, and produced instantly. That is how the impressionist works. The final product might take longer, but the way the object was viewed is the same. It’s what you see right then; like a first impression. They take just a second to see the colors and shapes, then paint that. So, it may not appear to look like anything at first. That can be the joy in viewing impressionism. It leaves the imagination open to the viewer. So today, we can recognize the connection and can see why they wanted to show their art with photography. It is the time in which they take to visualize the subject.
By the way, the artist that was at the photographer’s exhibition was Claude Monet. The painting he exhibited was the famous painting, Impression: Sunrise. "It is thought that this painting gave the Impressionists their name.”
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