In the early 1870s a new school of painting was exhibited in Paris. Its exponents were known in its early days as Naturalists or even Intransigents, before settling into the label by which they have become known today: Impressionists. By attempting a new way of painting light and its effects, so that it "palpitates with movement, light and life", Stephane Mallarme, a 19th-century French poet, explained that Impressionism boldly turned its face away from the precise photographic finish of French academic art of the second half of the 19th century.
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