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premixedpaint)onriverbanksandhillsides, ortheysketchedincafésanddancehalls.Gods,
goddesses, nymphs, and fantasy scenes were out; common people and rural landscapes were
in.
The quick style and everyday subjects were ridiculed and called childish by the “ex-
perts.”RejectedbytheSalon(whereworkswereexhibitedtothebuyingpublic),theImpres-
sionists staged their own exhibition in 1874. They brashly took their name from an insult
thrownatthembyacriticwholaughedatoneofMonet's“impressions”ofasunrise.During
the next decade, they exhibited their own work independently. The public, opposed at first,
was slowly won over by the simplicity, the color, and the vibrancy of Impressionist art.
