History Is Laughing

According to the book I am reading on Cezanne, when the Impressionists had their first exhibit, the critics were cruel. One said that the paintings looked like they had been produced by "cross-eyed minds". Another one referred to "Hell and damnation" with reference to the thought that he would look like an Impressionist painting when walking down a Paris street. And one of Monet's water lilies just broke an all time record sale price at $80 million.