Impression, Sunrise

A sunrise could make a smoke filled port surreal. The scenery of this painting seems to me more of a commercial space. A major industrial port, and smoke stacks leaving mists. But an ideal sunrise against water ripples caused by fishermen boats, and the sparkle it creates, makes a world shaped by labor and commerce, a spot worthy of a dreamy proposal.

Pond is a paradise for a frog. Likewise, La Havre is Monet's first ever paradise. He envisioned nature and beauty through these scenes. And Impression Sunrise is an exemplary reflection of it. What could've been a brutalist image, is softened by the orange skies and a dark sun that looks like venus in disguise carrying hope, transforms the unsettling gray into peaceful blue.

Impression Sunrise is not how Monet has envisioned La Havre but has how he has seen it all along his whole life. And he has altered the colour gradient of the place for anyone who visits there. That is a tribute or a dedication made to the place he grew up in.

Long before lilies and daises, Monet saw the ethereal beauty that nature carried- even in abstract locations. This image should've struck with him longer than any scenic view he has ever painted or seen.

Louis Leroy insulted the painting by calling the artists impressionists without knowing that Impressionism will become an art revolution by itself. Impression Sunrise was one of the eight paintings stolen in broad daylight at gunpoint, and was recovered later after five years. Monet unfathomably created some of the worthwhile pieces of Art History.