WE all talk a great deal about influences, in relation to both the artists who give and those who receive them; tabulating them adds a cozy sense of continuity to the rather chaotic history of art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou." (From "Impressionists on the Water" at the Peabody Essex Museum) A couple, dressed in what you might call their Sunday-outing best, stand on the grassy bank ...
When the Saint Louis Art Museum first presented a major Impressionism exhibition in 1934, it was dedicated to the oils and pastels of Mary Cassatt. A little more than 90 years later, Cassatt is back ...
Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC ...
Colour is the defining element of Impressionism. Early on some referred to the group as the Colourists; driven by a desire to paint what they saw, their obsessions were colour and light. A new ...
“Some of the most radical landscape imagery in the Impressionist movement was painted by women, from Berthe Morisot’s paintings which are radical in their proto-abstract quality to Blanche ...
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings The Fortifications of Paris with Houses The Fortifications of Paris with ...
Barely a year goes by on the Australian art calendar without the announcement of a major Impressionist exhibition. The latest is the National Gallery of Victoria’s “international exclusive show”, ...
Seldom has an exhibition’s title been so at odds with its contents as “Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile 1870-1904” at Tate Britain in London. Although it features two of the genre’s ...
St. Louis Art Museum is debuting 'Women Impressionists and the Land,' which holds over 70 paintings that focus on nature and ...
French Impressionists at Eclipso. Photo Courtesy of Excurio. On Saturday, January 25th, this journalist had the chance to visit the “Tonight with the Impressionists — Paris 1874” virtual reality ...