Few exhibitions have been more mythologized than the one that opened in a Parisian photography studio on April 15, 1874. There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered, launching ...

More than 150 years after the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, the Art Gallery of South Australia and Geelong Gallery ...

WE all talk a great deal about influences, in relation to both the artists who give and those who receive them; tabulating them adds a cozy sense of continuity to the rather chaotic history of art.

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 ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou." (From "Impressionists on the Water" at the Peabody Essex Museum) A couple, dressed in what you might call their Sunday-outing best, stand on the grassy bank ...

French Impressionists at Eclipso. Photo Courtesy of Excurio. On Saturday, January 25th, this journalist had the chance to visit the “Tonight with the Impressionists — Paris 1874” virtual reality ...

Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they really?

Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC ...

Colour is the defining element of Impressionism. Early on some referred to the group as the Colourists; driven by a desire to paint what they saw, their obsessions were colour and light. A new ...

Barely a year goes by on the Australian art calendar without the announcement of a major Impressionist exhibition. The latest is the National Gallery of Victoria’s “international exclusive show”, ...

Monet’s Japanese footbridge. Degas’ ballet dancers. Van Gogh’s sunflowers. Cezanne’s bathers. All are among the most iconic images from art history. All are on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ...