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 ...

PURE impressionism in literary criticism has of late years grown into great favor, both among critics themselves and with the public. The essentials of a good critic — so the rubric has come to run — ...

Worcester Art Museum’s collection of Impressionist art is, well … impressive. The European and American Impressionism collections at WAM have long delighted visitors to its galleries, the legacy of ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...

The visions are reproduced on place mats, coffee mugs, women's scarves, men's ties and socks: urban haze, flowering gardens and placid country roads. So popular is artistic impressionism that ...

Don’t miss In a New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940, Works from the Bank of America Collection, on display at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach through Saturday, April 16. This ...

Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement. Impressionist paintings create an oasis of beauty into which a viewer can escape from a sometimes dark and troubling world, or simply from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New collectors who want a chance to own an impressionist masterpiece have an opportunity in a Christie’s online sale featuring works by many under-the-radar American artists. The auction of 62 works ...