Monet was central: using oil paint on canvas to capture fleeting moments and fluctuating conditions, he forever changed attitudes to landscape, painting and art. In the late nineteenth century, pure landscape became recognised as a serious and meaningful genre of painting. British painters, especially JMW Turner and Richard Parkes Bonington, had inspired the French Barbizon School and Realist artists including Charles Daubigny, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet. Monet’s influences stretched beyond his friends, teachers and mentors such as Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind, to artists working earlier in the nineteenth century, a period when landscape painting changed dramatically. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. Inspired by Le Havre’s sunrise as viewed from his window, Monet tried to capture both the breaking of dawn in the skies, which, at the same time, was also reflected on the. Various artists and their painting techniques helped the young man to develop his ideas and to hone the now-signature rough, immediate and unfinished style captured so distinctively in this seminal work. Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the 'Exhibition of the Impressionists' in Paris in April, 1874. The renowned Claude Monet’s Impression Sunrise painting was born inside the artist’s bedroom in 1872 while the sun was just about to announce its presence to the world. Description: French painter and graphic artist: Date of birth/death. But Monet did not create his painting in a vacuum. Claude Monet: Impression, Sunrise Artist: Claude Monet (18401926) Alternative names: Oscar-Claude Monet. Claude Monet’s Impression, sunrise has had a lasting impact on modern art and led to the naming of one of its best-known movements-Impressionism.