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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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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8/n the spontaneity seen in impressionist oils was formerly something ppl did with watercolor which dries in minutes rather than days.
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Thinking in particular of painters like Edward Hopper who went back to a realist style
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