Monet, The Impression Catcher

Not a painter recording a scene. Someone grabbing the moment right as it slips. The impression is not the place. It's what hit him when he stood there. The light that lasted seconds. The reflection that was already gone. The color that only existed because of the weather at that exact hour. He processed all of that through his eye, his body, his memory, and what ended up on canvas was never the scene. It was the impact the scene left on him. That's what impression actually means. Not a style. Not a technique. A hit. Something lands on you and you catch it before it's gone. Forty paintings of t