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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9/n so there was precedent in visual arts for the impressionist style. In Chinese and Japanese art..
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