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the start of a new artmovement called Impressionism. Impressionist artists tried to show how objects na turally appear. To do this, they painted using strokes or dabs of pIiI11.a!Y colors, They a'[80 paid close attention to' how ].ight reflected off of the
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time in their paintlngs, People did ]lot Immedta te]y accept 1mpressiontsm. But 'no matter 'what crttles said, Monet kept painting the way he wan ted, to. As a result, Monet often struggled to sell his 'work Tllis is

because it pushed the: lhnits of what society would accept ln art,

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~ In 1901',~dust 'kicked, up 'by passlng cars 'was, sertling on ,Monet's, water garden, So~EH~' helped, p\EUY to 'have two roads in GiV'er[l(y paved I
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"with his work, scholars esnmate thet he destroyed IUQ!:r:e [han 5"00 of Ids, own paintings. lit did this 'by slashlng the works or 'by burning them.

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sublects, mduding art. Claude soon began creating carkatures, which were displayed in the: window of a local frame-maker's shop, People quickly recognized their fellow villagers in Claude's drawings! By age 15 he had gained local fame, Claude contln ued to pursue his art He met artist Eugene- Louts Boudin ~who in trodnced him, to pleln air painting, Boudin and
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