Claude Monet is a famous painter who was part of the Impressionist movement in 19th-century France. Gladwell turns to this movement to illustrate the benefits of breaking away from convention, since the Impressionists decided to stop displaying their paintings in the coveted Salon in order to gain more control from their exhibitions.
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Chapter 3: Caroline Sacks
In the 1860s, Impressionist painters like Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro had trouble showing their work to the public. This is...
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Recounting the story of the Impressionists, Gladwell says that Pissarro and Monet suggested that the group found a collective in which every artist would be treated the...
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