Boston loves impressionism. This we know after the runaway success of the MFA’s first crowd-sourced exhibit of the same name, for which the public voted for their favorite impressionist works to ...

IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS are typically described as pretty and easy on the eyes. They’re not usually called brash, and certainly not edgy. In their time, though, Claude Monet’s landscapes and Pierre ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leading figures in Impressionism, one of the most revolutionary movements in the history of art. Along with fellow painters Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Morisot, ...

San Francisco-based artistGeorge Pfau is more obsessed with zombies than you are. He is so enamored with them, that they are his muse for Impressionist paintings. What lily gardens were to Monet, ...

The premise of the exhibition “One Each: Still-Lifes by Cezanne, Pissarro and Friends,” which just closed at the Cincinnati Art Museum, is that at a precise moment in the mid-1860s, the formative ...

Claude Monet influenced more than just other painters. Composers began to incorporate impressionism into their music.The romantic era of Brahms went out the door. And in came French composer Claude ...

Cubism, impressionism, expressionism and... Is there anything else? Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but were undoubtedly central to the development of 20th-century avant-garde art.

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 ...

A painting by a forgotten French Impressionist artist whose career was cut short because of her disapproving husband has gone on display in Liverpool. The work by Marie Bracquemond, which depicts a ...

A highlight of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity" exhibition is the realization of fashion imaging spanning many centuries before the present moment. Before ...