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Originally Posted by Adriano Maggi
You can't recognise it unless you stay in a distance.
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It seems to me this is exactly what impressionism (and Sargent, who was of tthe same time period and influenced by impressionism) has contributed to present-day realism. We now have this historical precedent for being "painterly," suggesting something with a few strokes that look abstract if seen from close up.
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