From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery (photo taken by Dornac, c. 1910) (all images courtesy the National Gallery, London) LONDON — Impressionism is easily one of, if not the most, accessible ...

While French Impressionism is often the most talked-about art movement, American artists in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries carved out their own distinct voice with it and created American ...

Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the “intimate genius” of painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and Edgar ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

PARIS, France — Claude Monet created some of the most famous paintings of the Impressionist movement in the late 19th century. "Impressionists were the first to go outside to paint. They came out of ...

Impressionism is probably the most recognized artwork around the world. It's hard to think of another type of art that is so collectively popular, so beloved, so familiar. If I say the word ...

Claude Monet was “terrified.” He looked outside and saw a scene across the London landscape that worried him: no fog, clear skies. “Not even a wisp of mist,” he wrote in a letter on March 4, 1900, to ...

Impressionism, the movement that forever marked the history of art, is now 150 years old, almost to the day. To celebrate the anniversary, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris together with the National Gallery ...

In his masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never sold a ...