Impressionism is a school of painting that began in Paris in 1863 when the works of Edouard
Manet, a French painter and a follower of Gustave Courbet, were not given a place at the Paris
exhibition at the Salon. Napoleon III, however, demanded that Manet and his innovative friends
have a place to exhibit their works, and they were given a special room which was called the “Salon
of Refused Works.” One outstanding picture in this Salon was a landscape by Claude Monet called
Impression: Sunset. The name was adopted for the new style, although Edouard Manet rejected this term.
【題組】22. Who rejected the impressionists’ paintings?
(A) the Salon of Refused Works (B) Edouard Manet
(C) Napoleon III (D) the exhibition authorities