Good Old Days??

[firkin]

or...

Beautiful pollution....

Monet, Whistler and Turner's dramatic cityscape paintings thought to be inspired by smog:

"Most interestingly, the exhibition and catalog examine ways in which each artist used the deleterious effects of the Industrial Revolution - polluted rivers, foul air and limited visibility caused by smog - as aesthetic tools to enhance their art."

http://www.antiquesandthearts.com/GH-2004-07-27-11-46-46p1.htm

I guess the cloud has an orange lining.

 

[Aardvark]

Another fine myth...

 

[Yvsa]

Dayum, the way Stephen May describes the artist's work makes me want to go see the exhibition!!!! To bad it isn't on a passaround and won't land at our Philbrook Museum of Fine Arts.
If I lived in Toronto or close by my shirtail wouldn't hit my arse until I got to see it. You guys are lucky, fortunate, or whatever to have the exhibition there!!!!