What your home may have in common with French impressionists is paint by Benjamin Moore. No, Monet and Renoir did not use the product, but visitors to the de Young Museum’s “Birth of Impressionism,” ...

JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

It was a night to remember — though if you blinked, you missed it. It took just eight minutes for an iconic Claude Monet painting to sail past the never-before-seen $100 million mark for an ...

SKILLFUL popularizers don't always get a place of honor at literature's table, but they should. They bridge the divide between scholars and general readers, harvesting the work of experts and whipping ...

To contemporary sensibilities, the techniques of Impressionism — painting outdoors, experimenting with light and color, and applying the paint in dabs without blending it — seem normal, even ...

While every Art History 101 student knows that Impressionism challenged the prevailing aesthetic of its day, Professor House seeks to show that this challenge was also at least obliquely political: ...

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Some 150 years ago, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made a name for himself as a founder of the Impressionist art movement. His paintings (like "Bathers" and "Dance at Bougival") still captivate today. Now, his ...

Impressionism is an art movement that began in Paris, France in the latter part of the 19th century, in which the artists tried to capture light and the world as they saw it without being constricted ...

The challenge in mounting an exhibition of Impressionist works is transcending the assumptions and associations forged by the ubiquitous replication of the style in generic form: from posters in ...