... art. It made artists question the nature of representation and their intentions when recording from life. It also could produce an image without much effort. This dissuaded some artists from continuing painting and instead to pursue a career based on photography. It encouraged those who continued painting to be more creative and to use different colour techniques. One of the theories put forward by placing colours side by side so that they influenced each other. By placing red and yellow side by side, from a distance, the colours seem to merge together creating the colour orange. Chevraul was the man associated with these colour theories. Another of his discoveries was revolutionary art theories was that shadows were not necessarily black or brown, they could be blues, greens, purples or other hues. Although these discoveries did influence art, and help start the movement of impressionism, not all artists painted using the same ...

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