... outdoors, in an attempt to capture the fleeting impression of the play of light at a certain moment. The first Impressionist Exhibition was held in 1874. Prominent among the Impressionists were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Eugéne Boudin, and Gustave Caillebotte. Impressionism is thought to be the fruit of the scientific thought and ... black has tints of colour in it. It was the awareness of all these details that led the Impressionists into excluding black from their paintings; discard earthly tones and deal almost solely with th...

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