The Stories of the Mona Lisa: An Imaginary Museum Tale about the History of Modern Art

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You can’t see this Mona Lisa very well It’s just her reflection This is a painting by Claude Monet It dates from 1875 and is called Impression Sunrise I prefer the Leonardo da Vinci one That’s fine but you’re going to have to learn how to look at things differently How You’ll see Here everything is just color and light Monet didn’t worry about likeness but rather about the impression of likeness If you look again the drawing seems to have vanished Ah-ha That’s why he called it Impression Sunrise Exactly And this is the painting that gave its name to the great painting movement called Impressionism The Impressionists first exhibition took place in the studio of a photographer named Nadar Weren’t they angry with the photographers No the invention of photography was like a liberation for painters an 6 iMPressionisM ClaUDe moneT 1840 1926