For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

The Impressionism phase of art came in the 1870s, and started in the land of France. Impressionism was a reaction to the rigid structures of academic art, and promoted flexibility in styles.

Sebastian Smee delivered the Art History keynote at the Boston Book Festival, speaking on impressionism and its broader ...

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 ...

The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

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 ...

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 ...

explores the questions the exhibition attempts to tackle, including “when did interest in Impressionist art arise in the Netherlands; who exhibited these works; who purchased them for their own ...

The triumph of a trend commonly labelled “Impressionism” was a pivotal moment in the history of art. Precisely what the term implies can be debated, but as Sebastian Smee suggests in his ...

On Oct. 30 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a special appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian Smee, art critic ...

This one will be very warm and sensuous.” One of the undercurrents of French Impressionism is the relationships the featured artists had with one another – their jealousies and insecurities as ...