The narrative you get in the Art world around artists is almost always a false narrative. I follow a Monet Art bot on Twitter and I see this all the time. This is the true story of where “Impressionism” comes from.

Monet painted water lilies
Two-hundred-fifty times.
All of them are different.
That’s really quite sublime.
Each painted at a different
Time of day and year.
All with different attributes
Some are not that clear.
See, Claude developed cataracts
And started going blind.
They called this work “Impressionism.”
It wasn’t by design.
Then lots of people started painting
Like sightless Claude Monet.
A little too pretentious for my
Temperamental tastes.