"France had more than 11,000 miles of railway track in 1869. In the previous three decades the railway had transformed the nation more than any other single invention. It had stimulated the economy, created new social relations, and transformed the urban environment as metropolitan life began to revolve around the train station more than—as previously—the church or the town hall. The railway had likewise influenced artists, in particular landscapists, by bringing... destinations... within easy reach of their Paris studios. It had also, like photography, caused a shift in visual perception by altering the relationship between the viewer and the physical landscape, across which one could suddenly travel at speeds in excess of fifty miles per hour. It could be argued that the hasty-looking landscapes of Monet and Pisarro owed something to the brief vistas glimpsed as they loomed and then dissolved in the window of a train carriage. One Albert Wolff] critic of the Brignolles painters complained... that Monet "paints as if from an express train.""
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, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006) pp. 250-251; citing Theodore Zeldin, Taste and Corruption: France 1848-1945 (1980) p. 289-292, and John Milner, The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late Nineteenth Century (1988) p. 102.
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