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In 1874, the First Impressionist Exhibition was a disaster. 

Artists like Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas were ridiculed, their work described by critics as “base,” “unfinished,” and the worst thing to ever happen to art. A commercial flop, the exhibition saw 3,500 visitors, who mostly sauntered by to express horror at the plain frames and individual brushstrokes. 

About a decade later, Georges Seurat would start A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.