Unsettling the critics: Monet - Impression Sunrise

Impression, Sunrise - Claude Monet (1872) In 1874, Claude Monet exhibited this painting. It received mixed reviews. One critic called it unfinished wallpaper, but it's style gave birth to Impressionism, and its title named that art movement. And away from all the politics, what is the painting telling us? ATTRIBUTIONS PAINTINGS - public domain or fair use. PHOTOGRAPHS Exposition building: 'Nadar'. Louis Leroy: original photograph by 'Nadar'. Copy used by Marty71fr (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., used under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... No changes made. MUSIC - YouTube License No. 7 Alone with My Thoughts - Esther Abrami FAIR USE The copyright laws of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Unites States of America recognises that there exists a 'fair use' of, or 'fair dealing' with, copyrighted content. For example, Secion 107 of the US Copyright Act holds that "purposes such as criticisim, comment, news reporting, teaching, ...scholarship or research is not an infringement of copyright". Should this video contain copyrighted works (whether listed above or not), I believe in good faith that this use is protected by such laws, and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the reasons noted in the previous sentence.