Joseph Mallord William Turner painted his "Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway" in 1844, 4 years after Claude Monet was born. Looks like it took the Western civilization 28 years (Monet, "Impression, soleil levant" 1872) to develop impressionism out of the Turners' masterpiece. What was happening to artists over those 28 years given
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