Messire Nicolas: Much of impressionnism happened because of the ability to travel by train and paint outside.

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.

Much of impressionnism happened because of the ability to travel by train and paint outside.

Also Monet's blurrier later works were probably influenced by his cataracts. www.pbs.org/newshour/art...

How Monet's artistic vision shone through ailing eyeswww.pbs.org Imagine the horror of being an artist of light and color who starts to lose their sight.

Rembrandt and especially Turner's later work becomes more abstract and influences the emphasis on that element in modernist art mostly because it's harder for older men to paint as precisely

I’ve been describing my left eyesight pre-cataract surgery as like making everything into a Monet painting, so ok wow!

Also major advances in German industrial dye making and chemistry

And paint in tubes!

Yeah, that's what I meant by 'the ability to paint outside'.

That's a great one.

To add to that Impressionism is also a response to the advent of Photography. Basically, what can a painting capture in reality that a photo can’t.

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