The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery (photo taken by Dornac, c. 1910) (all images courtesy the National Gallery, London) LONDON — Impressionism is easily one of, if not the most, accessible ...

Worcester Art Museum’s collection of Impressionist art is, well … impressive. The European and American Impressionism collections at WAM have long delighted visitors to its galleries, the legacy of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...

THE WORLD was not always an arena of Claude Monet superfans. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy, an art critic, when describing Monet’s ...

Berthe Morisot's 1880 oil-on-canvas painting "Winter" is among the highlights of “The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse,” which continues through Nov. 3 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Chad ...

Don’t miss In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940, Works from the Bank of America Collection, on display at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach through Saturday, April 16. This ...

PURE impressionism in literary criticism has of late years grown into great favor, both among critics themselves and with the public. The essentials of a good critic — so the rubric has come to run — ...

In a recent recital in the auditorium of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, violinist Marina Chiche plucked at her instrument with a flurry and tempo that echoed the brisk brushstrokes in the blockbuster ...

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 ...

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