In a satirical 1874 review, critic Louis Leroy used this term to describe the loose, inexact manner of painting in a gallery show
In 
1874 French art critic Louis Leroy coined the term impressionist in a satirical 
review of a ... of the loose, inexact manner of painting of Monet and several other 
painters in ... To achieve the appearance of spontaneity, impressionist painters 
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