Q 01/05

The name Impressionism derives from the title of a painting by which artist?

A) Claude Monet

B) Édouard Manet

C) Pierre-Auguste Renoir

D) Camille Pissarro

Answer · why

A) Claude Monet

Impression, Sunrise shows his home port in Normandy in 1872.

Q 02/05

Which critic coined the term 'Impressionists' in a satirical 1874 review?

A) Théophile Gautier

B) Louis Leroy

C) Émile Zola

D) Charles Baudelaire

Answer · why

B) Louis Leroy

He wrote that 'wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape'.

Q 03/05

In which Parisian newspaper did the mocking review that named Impressionism appear?

A) Le Temps

B) La Presse

C) Le Charivari

D) Le Figaro

Answer · why

C) Le Charivari

The artists soon accepted the label themselves.

Q 04/05

Where was the First Impressionist Exhibition held in April 1874?

A) The rooms of the Salon des Refusés

B) A gallery inside the Louvre

C) The back room of the Café Guerbois

D) The studio of the photographer Nadar

Answer · why

D) The studio of the photographer Nadar

Thirty artists took part; Manet declined.

Q 05/05

How many times did the Impressionists exhibit together between 1874 and 1886?

A) Eight

B) Four

C) Twelve

D) Twenty

Answer · why

A) Eight

Membership shifted every time; only one painter showed at all of them.