Art history q: was rise of impressionism related to the general sense of time speeding up so you had to capture fleeting impressions?
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i don't know about time speeding up (straight-up modernism deals more w/ effects of eg industrial rev). but it was a break with historicism.
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Read in book that it was called impressionism as a way of making fun of Monet and his painting that was called Impression Sunrise at a show
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Tour I took said it owed to improvements in metallurgy allowing for portable tubes of paint, so you could paint outdoors easily
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Absolutely. Railroad + industrialization created accel of civilization, train rides blurred light, def sense of way of life disappearing
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1/n The impressionists painted IN life and FROM life rather than in carefully controlled studios with idealized tableaus. Why they did this
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Nascent influences included photography, Japonism & optics/color theory. Good overview here: visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art
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