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The tin tube was more resilient than its predecessor (the pig bladder), enabling painters to leave their studios. Chrysler Museum of Art The French Impressionists disdained laborious academic sketches ...

In Neanderthal times, some hunter must have leaned against a smokey cave wall, noticed he'd left a handprint, and gone on to make more pictures. Then came brushes, paint, canvas and Rembrandt. Today ...