This is extermly unfrequently updated. Although I have plenty of half written articles on my computer that i would love to publish, i don’t have enough of an incentive right now to protize them over work, school or other projects. They will be here eventually, but don’t count on it.
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this was written a year and a half ago as a final project for my highschool history course. i really liked how it turned out. please enjoy :) (this is also more of a test for the page then anything)
In 1841, American painter John Rand revolutionized painting with his invention of the paint tube. Before this, painters had to prepare their paints by grinding pigments into oil, then immediately use them before they hardened. Tubes both allowed painters to store paints for later and made them portable. John Constable was a particular fan of the latter. He used them to bring his painting process outdoors to paint his fields, inspiring a new age of landscape painting. Paint tubes also allowed manufacturers to produce paints for sale. Seemingly small developments and ideas like this can have a big impact on industry and culture. This essay will outline the history of art in the 19th century and how emerging technologies and the relationship between new artists and old institutions push its evolution. It will be looked at through one art movement at a time. First with romantic arts and realism, then impressionism and post-impressionism, before ending with expressionism.
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