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 ...
Our beloved Monets are currently having an extended family reunion at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. One of the prized possessions in the vast SBMA permanent collection is Claude Monet’s “Villas in ...
The Snake Charmer by Jean-Léon Gérôme (c. 1879) © The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA, This is the final weekend ...
During the 18th and 19th centuries, Japanese art, Impressionism, and other European art styles were heavily linked. Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, created to depict “The Floating World of Edo” (modern-day ...
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 ...
The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...
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Claude Monet was “terrified.” He looked outside and saw a scene across the London landscape that worried him: no fog, clear skies. “Not even a wisp of mist,” he wrote in a letter on March 4, 1900, to ...
Curator Nicole Myers speaks at a preview of “The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art” on view now through January at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. To her right ...