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She tried her best to stay completely still so she wouldn’t scare the hummingbird, holding back her reaction until it flew away. ❤️✨
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It still remains a mystery to me how Monet did this.
1874. Paris.
Monet and a bunch of broke young artists couldn't get into the official Salon because the jury kept rejecting them. So they decided to do their own show. Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne - 30 of them renting a photographer named Nadar's studio.
Monet puts up this small, sketchy painting from Le Havre. A sunrise, loose brushstrokes, barely finished. He couldn't even think of a proper title, so in the catalog he wrote 'Impression, Sunrise'.
A critic named Louis Leroy comes in. He hated it. He writes a sarcastic review in Le Charivari called 'The Exhibition of the Impressionists' and says:
"Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape."
He meant it as an insult.
But the insult stuck.
And became the name of the biggest art movement of the century.
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When you finally calm down and realize you may have overreacted a little
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