It was 1874, it was a new republic, it was a new world. The artists who became the impressionists took seriously what we now often fear: that when life changes outwardly, culture must change inwardly.
The art style of Impressionism can be defined with loose, visible brushstrokes, light colours, a bright palette, and a specific focus on the lights and shadows that covered their landscapes or models.
From Monet's Impression, Sunrise to Camille Pissarro's Hoarfrost, the Paris 1874 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C, offers a unique opportunity to explore the origins of one ...
A large-scale show of this nature could easily be organized at short notice thanks to the sufficient number of Impressionist masterworks already in the museum’s collection. But following the October 7 ...
Perhaps her most famous painting is The Cradle ... accounted for”, but his concluding explanation that “the Impressionist artists were in revolt against state-sanctioned hierarchies of ...
26, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee discussed his book, “Paris in Ruins,” which tells the stories of three great Impressionist painters — Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot ...
This was in the mid-19th and early 20th century, when Impressionism was in full play on the European art scene. American artists had traveled to France and witnessed this entirely new genre of ...
She took lessons from the famous Jean-Leon ... That was the recollection of art agent Augusto Jaccaci, quoted in Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers’ “Impressionist Quartet.” ...