Whitney Chadwick, Author, Women, Art, and Society "With a clear, elegant prose style, Ruth E. Iskin attends to details of social history as she analyzes the development of impressionist pictorial ...
For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious symbolism ...
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 ...
But it’s another thing entirely to confuse basic art history. The defining elements of Impressionist style predated the horrors of 1870-71. Impressionism was inspired by many things that were ...
What we now call impressionist music is a style introduced in late 19th Century ... artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas moved away from painting in the studio to painting on location.