PBS

How political upheaval inspired the French Impressionists

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 ...
Artnet

Want to See Inside the First Impressionist Exhibition? There’s a V.R. Experience for That

Few exhibitions have been more mythologized than the one that opened in a Parisian photography studio on April 15, 1874. There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered, launching ...
The Washington Post

‘The Impressionist Moment’ is a smart, bracing and unmissable art show

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 ...
Artnet

Impressionism Is 150 This Year. Is the Auction Industry Celebrating?

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874, when 31 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot, staged an exhibition that shocked Paris. Monet’s ...
Noozhawk

Impressionist, 19th-Century Art Exhibits on Display in Fall

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) this fall will be a place to experience two major exhibits of Impressionist and 19th-Century art. The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas ...
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American impressionist art museum to open in Westerly

WESTERLY, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island’s arts scene will grow this fall with a museum dedicated entirely to American Impressionism set to open in Westerly next month. The Westerly Museum of American ...
The New York Times

How the Impressionists Became the World’s Favorite Painters, and the Most Misunderstood

Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty, and the schmaltz? By Jason Farago The haystacks have been ...
Los Angeles Times

It’s raining men at the Getty’s survey of Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte

Women were the common subject for Impressionist painters like Degas, Renoir and Morisot, but Gustave Caillebotte chiefly painted men. The provocative Getty exhibition analyzes representations of ...
Noozhawk

‘Impressionist Revolution’ Art Exhibit Invites Santa Barbara to Rethink Familiar Genre

Curator Nicole Myers speaks at a preview of “The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art” on view now through January at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. To her right ...
The Boston Globe

Impressionism’s 150th, an anniversary more absent than present

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, ...
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5 places to visit in France that inspired Impressionist painters–from Monet’s water gardens to the birthplace of the movement in Normandy

A port, a garden, a mountain, a village, an island... These five places in France immortalised by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the 19th century have retained their legendary ...