My event was the Dallas Museum of Art; “The Lens of Impressionism”, photography and painting along the Normandy coast 1850-1874. I went on Sunday 21 February 2010. The class studied this era in chapter 13: The working class and the bourgeoisie. The term "Impressionism" was coined by a critic interacting with Clause Monet's painting "Impression: Sunrise" in 1874. The French Impressionists depicted light and color and were often embellished with romanticism; he usually conveyed scenes full of light and joy (Sayer).Piece I: "The Sea at Le Havre, 1868" by Claude Monet (oil on canvas)Claude Monet was the leader of the Impressionist painting movement. Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir and Alfred Sisley, gave art the ability to communicate a visual experience at a glance, allowing an image to enter the mind without any other thought. His Impressionist paintings would later evolve from one-glance experiences to more prolonged meditations, with striking slow-motion applications of fleeting, idle thoughts and images (Stuckey). Monet's The Sea at Le Havre emphasizes the interactions of sun, wind, sand and tides. It provides commentary on the elementary truths of nature. The horizon cuts the painting almost exactly in half between the sky above and the sea below, drawing attention to the abstract qualities of the composition. The color was applied forcefully and delicately to capture the movement of the sea and the cloudy day. His subject (the fishing boat) is made smaller and tilted as the wind presses hard against the sail, indicating the vast power of the sea. and wind (overall the wind and sky dominate the sea in this work). Strong waves crash against the shore indicating an inc...... middle of paper ......login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9512082779&site=ehost-live>.D'Souza, Aruna. The most arrogant man in France: Gustave Courbet and nineteenth-century media culture. Art Bulletin 90.3 (2008): 489-493. Academic research completed. EBSCO. Network. 28 February 2010. .Wagner, THE LANDSCAPES OF ANNE M. COURBET AND THEIR MARKET" Art History 4.4 (1981): 410-431. World History Collection. EBSCO. Web. 28 February 2010."Snapshots of Manet." Wilson Quarterly 31.2 (2007): 78-79. World History Collection. Web. 28 February. 2010.