although not about “feeling”, thats the best theory; as well - again because of tech advancement - oil paint could be bought in in tubes and cheaply, and was also portable; that and the import of japanese pictures changed how the early moderns thought of pictures and representation too.

you see this these changes in painting again with the advent of radio, film, tv and most recently with the adaptation of handheld flatscreen computers

to paraphrase marshall mcluhan: any new medium creates stress on old mediums to change