Oscar-Claude Monet was a vital founder of the impressionist art movement in the 19th century, and some scientists now think the French painter's revolutionary style was heavily influenced by air pollution.
Turner's 'Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway', painted in 1844.
In Early Monet paintings, visibility averages about 24 kilometers . But for Monet's daytime paintings in London, visibility averages just 6 kilometers. Turner, for instance, began a series of watercolor sunsets in the years following the Tambora volcanic eruption in 1815, which emitted a whole bunch of particles into the atmosphere that reddened the sky.,"19th century art critic John Ruskin wrote about Turner's work that 'had the weather when I was young been such as it is now, no book such as 'Modern Painters' ever would or could have been written'.
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