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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2/n is associated with the rise of the middle class as an economic force and a class with leisure..
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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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def not qualified to fully answer this, but: it was representative of rising interest in the present over the past, in general.
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paint tubes and portable easels (innovations) were the laptops of that age.
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artists were painting in realtime because they coukd take the paint to the subject
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Nascent influences included photography, Japonism & optics/color theory. Good overview here: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/impressionism-origins-influences.htm …
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Weird side note: since we train eyes & brain to perceive, there was a time when artists "discovered" perspective:https://www.britannica.com/art/linear-perspective …
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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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If you like materialist expansions, as I do, that explains a lot
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