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Sleepy History · Impressionist Art · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

But instead of seeing this term as offensive, the group later decided to use it to their advantage.

They began to collectively call themselves the Impressionists.

If that was how people wanted to describe their paintings, then that was what they would become.

Although the shows were well attended, it soon became obvious that many had only visited to mock the new style of art on display.

Reviews were far from favorable.

Here are the words of one reporter.

There is an exhibition of the intransigence in the Boulevard des Capucines, or rather, you might say, of the lunatics.

If you would like to be amused and have a moment to spare, don't miss it.

Cézanne's work was also singled out.

A modern Olympia was described as being created by a sort of madman, painting in a state of delirium tremens.

Edouard Manet, who had refused to join the Society, preferring to stick with the Academy, was also having issues.

Two of the three works he had submitted for consideration to the Salon had been rejected, and the third had been panned by critics.

The Impressionists did, however, have a few supporters.

one of whom was the art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel.

He had been purchasing works from them and contributing to the society's funds.

But now he was having financial issues and he suspended his payments to the group.

The society had already been struggling and this was a huge blow to their funding.

In December 1874, just nine months after their first exhibition, the Impressionists decided to liquidate the Anonymous Society of Painters.

However, it didn't stop them from painting.

Monet and Pissarro were drawn to paint scenes occurring in the newly constructed railway stations of Paris.

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