How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did sly dog!
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While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.
Umberto BoccioniThe so-called ‘discoveries’ of the impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
pierre-auguste renoirThe so-called ‘discoveries’ of the impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.