Monty by Jim Meddick for May 18, 2012
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Transcript:
@#$@#%. I don't get how there can be so many paintings of sunsets! I can never finish them in time...
@#$@#%. I don't get how there can be so many paintings of sunsets! I can never finish them in time...
This is how Impressionism got started. The Impressionists were fascinated by natural light, but it keeps changing, so they started painting their more lasting “impressions” of a scene. Little by little their styles turned farther and farther away from what was in front of them and more and more to their own emotions. That was the start of the slide to the worst of modern art, cut off from any concern with actual reality. (Class dismissed.)