The idea of portraying the world as it truly appears is a relatively recent development in the world of art history. Before Naturalism and Realism paved the way for the Impressionist movement ...

The story of Impressionism’s birth has been told so ... But, beyond art, what was going on in late 1800s Paris? Quite a lot, actually. The Third Republic was afoot with the French capital ...

Post-Impressionism came on the scene in Europe ... and they date from about the late 1800s. And what is really fascinating about Ransome is he was originally a Hudson River Valley School painter ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Is Impressionism played out? As a cash cow, maybe. The movement that launched a billion-dollar industry of calendars, coffee mugs, tote bags, posters and, more recently ...

4 (UPI) --Smoggy air during the Industrial Revolution may have contributed to the creation of impressionism ... movement toward Realism in the early 1800s. Around this time, artists began to ...

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 ...

What on Earth Is Wrong with 60 Minutes? Summers Before Screens A Visit to Winterthur, the House Museum Par Excellence For Impressionism’s 150th anniversary, the Clark Art Institute probes an ...

“This catalogue was the companion to the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art and the de Young Museum held in 1986 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the final Impressionist exhibitio ...

(Tierney L. Cross for The Washington Post) Review by Philip Kennicott Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s marquee exhibition, “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” encounter two very ...