France's Musée d'Orsay Marks 150 Years of Impressionism
If at first you don't succeed, try and try again.
That's something many of us will have heard before, and the history books are full of examples of people who took that advice.
Just look at the French impressionists. The artists of the impressionist movement held their first show in Paris in 1874 after many of them had been rejected by the Louvre.
Among this group of artists were some of the most famous names in the history of art — and they're being celebrated on the 150th anniversary of that first show with an exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris this year.
Impressionism is a style of painting that often uses bright colors and quick brush strokes to capture how light and color look at a certain moment, often outdoors.
Between March and July, impressionist artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas will be celebrated with the "Inventing impressionism" exhibition at the museum.
There will also be an "immersive experience" until August that will use virtual reality to allow visitors to feel what it was like to walk through Paris and see that show in 1874.
The museum has been home to these artists' work since it opened in 1986, and its collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings is the largest in the world.
The building was completed in 1900 as a railway station. And with its high, glassy ceilings it makes a beautiful art museum.
Looking over the left bank of the River Seine, the Musée d'Orsay attracts more than 3 million visitors per year.
People don't only come for those French greats. Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhone is one of the top attractions, while there is also space for modern art, and digital art has even been exhibited this year.
