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The currents before, as well as those after the Impressionism are attempting an intellectualization of painting. Impressionism comes as a pause in theory, a sort of “resetting” of the history of painting and esthetics, which capsizes the concepts that preceded it. “This liberation started with the Impressionists. \ldots They were the ones who realized that there is art for art, that the true beauty can be found in the simplest things. Above all, they realized that the colour of an object is more important th...