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.

Can we rediscover what was so revolutionary about impressionism back in 1874? Can we still see the defiance in its beauty, and even its schmaltz? Right now, at the National Gallery of Art in ...

In the conventional art mediums where straight lines, accurate depictions, and anatomy were given all the love and ...

A large-scale show of this nature could easily be organized at short notice thanks to the sufficient number of Impressionist masterworks already in the museum’s collection. But following the October 7 ...

It was 1874, it was a new republic, it was a new world. The artists who became the impressionists took seriously what we now often fear: that when life changes outwardly, culture must change inwardly.

While today works by artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas fetch eye-popping sums at auction, reviews after their inaugural 1874 exhibition in Paris were scathing. 6 months ago ...

This fall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is bedecked with pastels, broad brushstrokes and light –– the French Impressionists have arrived. While the muggy autumn weather outside is ...

Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism is “premised on the conviction that we cannot see impressionism clearly” without grasping the impact on the movement’s leading painters of the Franco-Prussian ...

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART trumpets Paris 1874 as a fresh look at “the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting.” But that understates the show’s ambition and achievement.