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Anna Lea Albright & Peter Huybers: #Impressionism and air pollution

"The #art of impressionists Claude Monet and J.M.W. Turner in the late 19th and early 20th centuries shows undefined shapes and hazy color palettes. But the artists may have been influenced by more than just the impressionist and romanticist styles followed by the artists of the time. Both painters worked in London during the Industrial Revolution, when the skies began to fill with air pollution. In a recent #PNAS study, Anna Lea Albright of the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology in Paris and Peter Huybers of Harvard University analyzed the evolution of Monet’s and Turner’s styles and correlated them with what’s known about air quality at that time. The results suggest that the style of these paintings captured trends in air pollution."

#airpollution #industrialrevolution #claudemonet #jmwturner
https://www.pnas.org/post/podcast/impressionism-and-air-pollution

Mr. Turner (2014) - Mike Leigh
#jmwturner #art #painting #mikeleigh #timothyspall