How did Monet influence later artists?

Monet broke
away from realist painting to capture the fleeting impression of how a scene looked in the
moment. He was aided by advances in paint technology that allowed a painter to be outside,
recording a scene in a real time. Monet is famous for his emphasis on light and color and for
his "scientific" approach to art, wanting to accurately record what he actually saw
rather than what an object was "supposed to" look like. Therefore, if he was out in
the rain and a haystack looked like a blur, he painted that blur. After all, that is how a
haystack sometimes appears.

Monet influenced a generation of American
artists such as James MacNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Mary Cassatt. Though Whistler
and Sargent were not impressionists, they learned from Monet's use of color and...