The story of Impressionism’s birth has been told so often, it’s more myth than historic event. Generally, the tale goes something like this: in 1874, a ragtag gang of disaffected artists reject the ...

Rochester, N.Y. — There’s just one month left to experience an extraordinary exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery.Frontiers ...

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 ...

Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Caillebotte will be in the spotlight in an exhibition at Paris' Musée d'Orsay starting on Sept. 25. By Rebecca Leffler Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus Edouard Manet - P ...

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 ...

Claude Monet influenced more than just other painters. Composers began to incorporate impressionism into their music.The romantic era of Brahms went out the door. And in came French composer Claude ...

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 ...

Imagine this scene: Pierre-August Renoir and Edouard Manet are visiting Claude Monet when they both decide to paint Monet’s wife and son lounging on the lawn. They bring out easels and tubes of paint ...

About 145 years ago, a group of artists in France started experimenting with a new style of landscape painting. Characterized by vivid, almost radioactive colors and fluid yet imprecise brush strokes, ...

In an ordinary season, "Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism" at the Legion of Honor might have outshone everything else the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco offered. But this ...

Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...