Famously, of course, Impressionism was not greeted with love at the outset. In 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition was ...

Impressionism ended up on fridge magnets. It started with bloodshed. Political violence tore France apart. A group of painters hoped a radical visual language could patch life back together.

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious ...

The blockbuster movement’s sesquicentennial arrived without fanfare at US museums, signs of a changing attitude.

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

The Impressionist movement, which began in the late 19th century and became a landmark in modern art, was the effort of artists who found that academic standards were stagnating their creative ...

Dot painting or pointillism is an interesting art form where you create images out of small, individual dots of color ...

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from tomes on how society shaped Impressionism to a deep dive into how the paintings were actually made—selected by curators Kimberly Jones and ...

Art & Exhibitions Impressionism at 150: Here Are 9 Shows Advancing the Historic Movement New takes on the movement as it celebrates its anniversary, including skating rinks, David Hockney, and VR.

Arts ‘Immersive Monet & The Impressionists’ floods the Castle with color Surround yourself in the art movement that pays homage to the beauty of nature. Water lilies dance on the walls of the ...