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Impressionism had its radical beginnings in the late 19th century. With a departure from academic painting, early Impressionists such as Claude Monet often took departing from the studio into open air, plein air painting capturing transient light effects, allowing them to incorporate a sense of changing time. Doing so the impressionists took to a looser, more open compositions with visible brush stokes, the emphasis of light in changing qualities, common subjects, unusual perspectives and the inclusion of movement.