Last year marked the 150th anniversary of one of the most popular art movements of our day. Impressionist exhibitions are reliable blockbusters for museums, and the classic tale of art that was mocked ...
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874, when 31 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot, staged an exhibition that shocked Paris. Monet’s ...
The field of Arts has seen many different ages, phases, and eras. Be it emotional portraits, paintings, and sculptures of mythological figures, or the trend of graffiti on walls that became a form of ...
Impressionism, like most new things, great or small, is at present more discussed than understood. The word itself is elastic, and covers a variety of significations; the teachings of the school, in ...
It’s hard to believe that Monet, Degas and Renoir once faced hostility from the art world. Alastair Sooke reveals how one man changed everything. Few movements in the history of art feel as familiar ...
In the conventional art mediums where straight lines, accurate depictions, and anatomy were given all the love and appreciation, Impressionism emerged as a cry for change. The little blurry lines, the ...
IMPRESSIONISM casts its luminous spell on Southeast Asia through Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a major exhibition now on view at the National Gallery Singapore ...
This year, museums around the world have been commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874, putting on shows that expand upon the established history of ...
When Claude Monet painted "Houses of Parliament, Effect of Fog" (1899–1904), he was likely depicting pollution, researchers say. (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia) The late 19th ...