On Impressionists

When the camera was invented artists were forced to abandon capturing realistic images from life. Interestingly enough, I've seen quite a few pictures that have been painted, not lifelike per se, but with such accuracy that they just look like photos processed though a series of Photoshop filters. Which, is rather depressing actually.

On the other hand, I'm liking Giovanni Boldini. His stuff was tight.



In a seperate note, at the back of Jon Stewart's book, there were a series of ads for fake books. I thought the one on open domain Victorian era erotica was a joke. Then I found Gustave Courbet.