The One And Only? (What A Concept!)

“Ever since Impressionism, we tend to associate a unique visual style with an authentic expression of some inner feeling of the soul of the artist. Then if he does it over again, you think, ‘Wait, how authentic was this?’ Certainly, many artistic masterpieces are singular, but the ideal of the unique, individual work of art is fairly new — it emerged 200 or so years ago as part of the artistic movement known as Romanticism.”