The 150th anniversary of the birth of Impressionism has brought with it a wealth of exhibitions about the art movement, including Paris 1874: the Impressionist Moment, which debuted at the Musée ...

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.

V isitors to the National Gallery of Art’s marquee exhibition, “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” encounter two very different works upon entering.Side by side are a large, detailed ...

The Impressionist movement, which began in the late 19th century and became a landmark in modern art, was the effort of artists who found that academic standards were stagnating their creative ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious ...

Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement. Impressionist paintings create an oasis of beauty into which a viewer can escape from a sometimes dark and troubling world, or simply from ...

Some 50 Impressionist paintings that influenced the expansion of the 19th-century art movement from Europe to the United ...

Mary Cassatt in 1914. Image courtesy of the Frederick A. Sweet research material on Mary Cassatt and James A. McNeill Whistler, 1872-1975, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.. Mary ...

The Monet Painting That Defined Impressionism Makes Its Stateside Debut. Monet's canvas including the word "Impression" in its title unwittingly christened one of art history's most beloved movements.

I first read the letters Édouard Manet wrote to his family in the winter of 1870-1871 on a dead summer afternoon in an air-conditioned college library in Sydney. I was 19, studying art history. I ...

The National Gallery of Art celebrates the 150th anniversary of the exhibition credited with inaugurating French Impressionism, contrasting work by Monet, Manet and other revolutionary painters ...