“Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a gorgeous show of roughly 130 works at the National Gallery of Art organized by its curators Mary Morton and Kimberly A. Jones, marks the 150th anniversary of ...
From left, “The Cradle” by Berthe Morisot, “The Mother and Sister of the Artist” by Berthe Morisot, “The Luncheon” by Claude Monet, “The Artist's Daughter, Marie-Anne Carolus-Duran” by Charles Emile ...
One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled after one from ...
On April 15th, 1874 a group of artists including Monet, Renoir, Morisot, and Degas held a radically new art exhibition in Paris. Breaking with the traditional academic painting style of the time, ...
You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life. But while inspired by nature, light, and the energy of modernity, the Impressionists ...
Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...
In Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism, Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee tells the story of the cultural fallout of this military misadventure. Smee focuses on the ...
PARIS (Reuters) - The bold horizontal brushstrokes of Manet's 1876 female portrait, "The Parisian," convey the raw energy of a new painting style that turned heads well over a century ago with its ...
Beginning June 29, the Art Institute of Chicago will be showcasing the art of Gustave Caillebotte in a major exhibition that explores the very personal interests and relationships that shaped his ...