The Art Service Industry, part 5

Vermeer

Maid with a milk jug

As we have seen from what has gone before it seems that there is a wide discrepancy between the none artists view and what the artists where aiming to achieve or in fact where achieving. Herbert Reed goes on to touch on Impressionism, a movement which could have be said to have had its waters muddied, by its title, suggested by a critics slur: That the paintings where merely impressions.
Herbert Reed speaks of Impressionism as a subjective movement. However, the truth is somewhat different the movement emerged parallel to the invention of photography. Painters had a big break through when they realised that a camera did not see objects as separate entities, as in a bottle on a table, two separate objects, but as patches of light. The bottle may be lost and found in the tones and colours of the table. A second and just as important aspect was that the grainy resolution was oblivious to distance, hence the trade make rain effect of Impressionism. Nether did the mindless machine pay any attention to the psychological precedence. Equal treatment was given to all areas whether a finger nail sized eye or a finger nail itself.