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The name Impressionism comes from a comment that a critic made about Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise saying that the piece only looked like an impression because of its sketchy quality and visible brushstrokes. The artist like the name so it stuck.

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It comes from the title of a Claude Monet painting "Impression, Sunrise". The critic Louis Leroy then coined the term "Impressionism" in a satiric review.

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