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Where did the term "impressionism " originate, why?

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The term 'impressionism' comes from a painting by Claude Monet, which he showed in an exhibition with the name Impression, soleil levant Impression, Sunrise. An art critic called Louis Leroy saw the exhibition and wrote a review in which he said that all the paintings were just "impressions".

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