Practice question · Select all that apply
What conditions made painting outdoors practical for the Impressionists?
Hints
- The enabling conditions were industrial and infrastructural.
- One listed item did not exist yet in any usable form.
Show the answer
- A. Collapsible metal paint tubes (from 1841) made pigment portable
- B. Pre-mixed commercial paints removed studio grinding
- D. Rail travel put the countryside within a day’s reach
Why
A tube, a shop, and a train, the revolution had a supply chain. Electric field lighting is anachronistic, and would have missed the point anyway: the whole subject was daylight moving.
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