"The article states that there existed a prevailing sentiment among practicing artists, (My generations mythology involved the romance of being true to oneself). Can you think of at least 2 other professions that may have similar romantic overatones?"

Personal and Physiological

Explanation:

Personal and Physiological

answer; his friendship with claude monet;

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.