WHY is it that the important movements in art are greeted always, at their inception, by derision and scorn? Search the history of art as you will and always you will find this to be true. There was the laughter that greeted Claude Monet, the founder of French Impressionism—the first school of art to study the vibration of light. Fortunately for Monet, ho was able to marshal on his side, while all the world was still jeering, such masters as Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas, and Renoir, a group of which Monet remains the sole survivor. He is finishing his years in the secluded village of Giverny, near Rouen. He suffered the ridicule of the world in the same proud and silent manner as he accepts, today, fame, fortune and the world s applause