The Frist Art Museum presents The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art, an exhibition that tells the enthralling story of Impressionism from its origins in 1874 to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The past is beautiful, and the future is splendid. Even sad memories often remain as beautiful afterimages after time passes.
It’s difficult to underestimate the influence Childe Hassam had in bringing French Impressionism techniques to the United ...
In a recent recital in the auditorium of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, violinist Marina Chiche plucked at her instrument with a flurry and tempo that echoed the brisk brushstrokes in the blockbuster ...
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 ...
When Christie’s puts Pablo Picasso’s storied 1955 painting Les Femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) on the auction block with an estimate of $140 million next week, it may make history in more ways than one.