France has produced some of the world's most influential artists, including Monet, Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse. The Impressionist movement, which revolutionised Western art in the late 19th century, was born in France. The word 'Impressionism' itself came from a critic's mockery of Monet's painting 'Impression, Sunrise', which the artists then adopted as their name.
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