The academy rejected the painting, and the art media seized on the term "impression" to mock the fact that mere impressions were all the "unselected" were capable of conveying. As things turned out, the label came to signify one of the most important schools of art in history. Matisse was a painter who saturated the canvas with shimmering swaths of color.
然而，那捕捉日昇的快筆畫作，不但為學院所拒絕，媒體記者還鄙夷地以莫內畫作名中的「印象」，來諷刺這些落選畫家只會畫印象，這項諷刺就成了歷史上重要畫派的命名由來了。