The story of Impressionism’s birth has been told so often, it’s more myth than historic event. Generally, the tale goes something like this: in 1874, a ragtag gang of disaffected artists reject the ...

The field of Arts has seen many different ages, phases, and eras. Be it emotional portraits, paintings, and sculptures of mythological figures, or the trend of graffiti on walls that became a form of ...

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 ...

Impressionism was born in 19th-century modern Paris and adopted the city’s daily life as its subject. However, the names of ...

Impressionism, like most new things, great or small, is at present more discussed than understood. The word itself is elastic, and covers a variety of significations; the teachings of the school, in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine this scene: Pierre-August Renoir and Edouard Manet are visiting Claude Monet when they both decide to paint Monet’s wife and son lounging on the lawn. They bring out easels and tubes of paint ...

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 — ...

Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...

The National Museum of Korea in Yongsan, Seoul, will hold a special lecture titled **‘Resonance Between the Lehmann ...