How did artists like John Sloan, who painted Passing Through Gloucester, change their views with the new advances in transportation? They began feeling the need to escape their hometowns so they could paint scenes without tourists in the way. They expressed daydreams in their paintings by using patterns and forms.
The greatest achievement of hiberno-Saxon art in the eyes of almost all modern observers is the book of kells, the most elaborately decorated of the insular gospel books.
