Impressionists and Trappists: From Avant-Garde to Cliche

Been watching, reading, and listening lately. Enjoying TV shows, books and music. Been thinking, too.

A few months back started off watching this great BBC Two TV series, “The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution” on BBC Two hosted by Waldemar Januszczak. Yes, those guys (and as Waldemar points out, some ladies too). Two things from the show really stuck with me. One, how the technology of painting, colors and railroads all came together at the right time to make this breakthrough in art p...