Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty, and the schmaltz? By Jason Farago The haystacks have been ...
Impressionism used to be discussed as a movement that turned its back on high art’s traditional subjects in order to give more attention to other matters. The Impressionists’ themes, landscape, still ...
In April 1874, 150 years ago, the Impressionists held their first exhibition together in the studio of Felix Nadar on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. It was a less-than-complimentary review by ...
Their paintings emerged from a specific historical and artistic moment, yet they still resonate today, as a blockbuster Paris exhibition shows. By Emily LaBarge The critic Emily LaBarge saw the ...
One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled after one from ...
Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...
“This is not a gouté, or a buffet — this is a banquet of every major Impressionist artist,” says Paul Hayes Tucker, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who has spent ...