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The academy expected artists to make work based on mythology, religious iconography, history or classical antiquity in a style that idealized the subject. Such fakery didn’t interest this group of young, ambitious painters. They wanted to leave their studios and go outside to document the modern world around them. It was a bold move. Artists simply didn’t wander off and paint 'low' subjects such as ordinary people picnicking, or drinking or walking; it wasn’t the done thing. It would be like Ste
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― What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
― What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
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