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the artistic epic of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Berthe Morisot, Pissaro, Sisley, Cézanne… and this gust of new wind that was Impressionism.
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As much as their painting, what has marked opinion about the Impressionists is the story of their appearance. Who has never heard these anecdotes, these critics accusing Monet of being foggy, the Salon refusing these painters, the bourgeois exclaiming in incomprehension, the word "impressionist" itself thrown as an insult by a journalist from
Charivari
? The general public loves the Impressionists so much today, they have such easy access to their aesthetic, that it is astonishing to imagine that this painting could have initially been rejected.
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