This is a masterpiece by Lee In-sung (1912–1950), a genius painter of Joseon. He was greatly influenced by Gauguin, wasn’t he ...

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, ...

"That painting was the beginning of a collection that eventually grew to over 200 works," Tackett says. The 41 paintings in "American Impressionism" date from 1861 to the late 1930s, a period of ...

Stepping into the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) this spring and summer, visitors may feel as though they’ve fallen into an Impressionist landscape painting. That’s ...

Most people think of impressionism as a purely French artistic movement, said Douglas Britt in the Houston Chronicle. In fact, it had a late if little-known flowering in Germany, where artists such as ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Les Choristes" was stolen from the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2009. — -- A painting by French impressionist Edgar Degas has been located for the first time since it was stolen from a ...

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 ...