Art That Shook The World 2001 -
Overview:In the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874, Claude Monet shocked the world with a new way of seeing. Art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals how Monet's flickering brush strokes of vivid colour, once derided as childish and vulgar, eventually led to new ways of painting, most notably in the pure abstraction of Rothko, Pollock and de Kooning.
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