While French Impressionism is often the most talked-about art movement, American artists in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries carved out their own distinct voice with it and created American ...

The impressionist movement was harshly criticized when it first emerged in France in the 1870s (the style takes its name from Claude Monet's "Impression, Sunrise"). But artists and collectors soon ...

More than 100 works of art by 75 different artists are on display right now at the Tampa Museum of Art. In a New Light: American Impressionism is the exhibit, and it brings impressionist paintings ...

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 ...

New York (CNN) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored ...

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 ...

You know Degas, Renoir and Pissarro. You’ll find them here. If you’re an art lover, you also know John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase. You’ll find them here, too. Beginning ...

Researchers have developed a new strategy that uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) to acquire both the surface and underlying details of impressionist style oil paintings. This information can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benson is one of two local artists teaching plein air painting classes at Asheville Museum of Art this spring. Photo courtesy of the artist “You know how when a light hits a prism, it is divided into ...