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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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Hmm. Now I'm thinking about whether relative slowdowns like the great depression showed similar 2nd order effects of deceleration
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He certainly chose subjects that weren't moving around very quickly. Low vibrational state physically as well as emotionally.
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Watercolor was a study,practice and preparation technique for professional artists back in the days before Abstract Expressionisn.
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