Their work can be seen in the touring show “Impressionism Revolution: Monet to Matisse,” currently at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, alongside the latter’s “Encore: 19th-Century French Art.” The Dallas ...
What often gets called cobblestones on old Philadelphia streets are actually Belgian blocks. But no, the neat rectangles cut so they can fit tightly together did not come from Belgium. They came from ...
“Apple Harvest” (1888) by Camille Pissarro (French, born Danish West Indies, 1830-1903), oil on canvas. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art It’s difficult now to imagine a time when Impressionist art ...
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 probably the most recognized artwork around the world. It's hard to think of another type of art that is so collectively popular, so beloved, so familiar. If I say the word ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Is Impressionism played out? As a cash cow, maybe. The movement that launched a billion-dollar industry of calendars, coffee mugs, tote bags, posters and, more recently, ...
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 ...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874, when 31 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot, staged an exhibition that shocked Paris. Monet’s ...
Our beloved Monets are currently having an extended family reunion at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. One of the prized possessions in the vast SBMA permanent collection is Claude Monet’s “Villas in ...
This year, museums around the world have been commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874, putting on shows that expand upon the established history of ...
CHICAGO — The Impressionist artists working in France in the 1800s clearly liked women. While landscapes and still lifes studded their oeuvres, they turned repeatedly to the subjects of dancers, opera ...