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1._____ a huge art fan, I knew exactly what I 2._____(look) forward to most about my trip to Paris: visiting the Musée d’Orsay. 3._____(house) in an old railway building, this world-famous art museum 4.f_____ some of the best-known paintings from the Impressionist movement of the 19th century.
5._____ I wandered through the Impressionist gallery, I appreciated masterpieces like The Ballet Class and The Card Players. Even though I 6.____(admire) them hundreds of times on my computer screen, nothing 7._________ (prepare) me for the wonder I 8._____(feel) when I finally 9._____(lay) eyes on the real thing. 10._____ it was hard to pick a favourite painting out of so many amazing works, the artists who 11._____(make) the deepest impression 12._____ me 13._____(be) two of the greatest Impressionist painters, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
I could see from Monet’s works that he was greatly inspired by nature. In the last three decades of his life he painted 14._____(most) scenes from his garden. One of these scenes 15._____ (show) in the famous piece Blue Water Lilies, which I studied for quite 16._____ while in the gallery. I couldn’t believe it 17._____ I heard he did around 250 paintings of the same water lily pond, all 18._____ different colours and styles. It is amazing that every time Monet 19._____(study) this simple scene, he brought the pond’s beauty 20._____ the canvas in a unique way.
Renoir, I noticed, 21._____(prefer) to paint scenes of everyday life. For me, the most interesting of his paintings 22._____(be) his 1876 masterpiece Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 23._____(show) life in a busy neighbourhood of Paris 23+._____ a Sunday afternoon. When I saw it up 24.c_____, I 25._____(strike) by the small areas of light 26.a_____ the painting, 27._____ the way the soft edges of the figures seemed 28._____(mix) together. There’s so much going on, 29._____ so little clear detail. This effect makes the 30._____(live) movement of the dance