On April 15, 1874, an exhibition organized by 31 artists who had created themselves as the Société Anonyme des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. (in effect, an incorporated business) ...
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 ...
From left, “The Cradle” by Berthe Morisot, “The Mother and Sister of the Artist” by Berthe Morisot, “The Luncheon” by Claude Monet, “The Artist's Daughter, Marie-Anne Carolus-Duran” by Charles Emile ...
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 ...
You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life. But while inspired by nature, light, and the energy of modernity, the Impressionists ...
Social change made leisure gardens accessible to all – not just kings and aristocrats – at the same time as ‘the great ...
“Berthe Morisot lived in her great eyes,” wrote the French poet Paul Valéry, her nephew by marriage. This assessment highlights Morisot’s dual claim to fame as both a muse and a member of the school ...
Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...
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