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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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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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Yes might be a reason. Also the interest in cotidian scenes. And appreciation of this style suggested earlier in works like "Las Meninas"
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