The term "Impressionist" was first coined in the mid-1970s, as a critically derisive term, to describe the light and colour paintings of a small group of Parisian artists, the so-called "Salon des Refusés" "(Salon of the Refused) - among them Manet, Renoir, Degas and especially Monet, whose name "Impression, soleil levant" inspired it. The application of the term to music from the 1880s onwards was a fairly predictab
... Más informaciónThe term "Impressionist" was first coined in the mid-1970s, as a critically derisive term, to describe the light and colour paintings of a small group of Parisian artists, the so-called "Salon des Refusés" "(Salon of the Refused) - among them Manet, Renoir, Degas and especially Monet, whose name "Impression, soleil levant" inspired it. The application of the term to music from the 1880s onwards was a fairly predictable extension, although most composers to whom it was applied abandoned its application - most famously Claude Debussy, who claimed that critics who applied it to music were "imbeciles" and that instead they were simply trying to do "something else".
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