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The Impressionists weren't just making soft-focus dorm posters. Their vision was radical
In the 1860s he gravitated toward Manet ... painting from the treacly academic styles prized by the Salon, Smee and Wullschläger liberate Impressionism from the clichés of dorm-room posters ...
Impressionism ended up on fridge magnets. It started with bloodshed.
Long accustomed to impressionists’ ways of perceiving the world, we put paintings by Monet and Renoir on tea towels and ...