The Orsay Museum in Paris is marking 150 years of Impressionism with an unprecedented reassembling of the masterpieces that launched the movement, and a virtual reality experience that takes visitors back in time.
The Orsay has brought together 160 paintings from that year, including dozens of masterpieces from that show, including the blood-red sun of Monet's"Impression, Sunrise", credited with giving the movement its name, and his"Boulevard des Capucines" where the exhibition took place. "The Impressionists wanted to paint the world as it is, one in the midst of major change," said Sylvie Patry, co-curator of the exhibition.
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