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Impressionism is the first movement of modern art because of its charm we forget that Impressionism is also avant-garde ISM we think Impressionism was the last time art was understandable and then there's a succession of more and more outrageous hoaxes getting higher and higher into obscurity and that's the modern art tradition that we're still in but actually this is in the same stream as this we find the shark a bit mysterious but we pretty much know what goes into its shock value it's us what we are our society what turns us on what makes us react we think this it's too nice for that what I'm going to do over the next two hours is tell the story of Impressionism partly in order to see what made this shocking in its time but also to look at the challenge it offers to our equivalent of it tonight Impressionism by its bag the two artists who open the door for Impressionism a Gustave Courbet