James Ensor, "The Astonishment of the Mask Wouse" (L’étonnement du masque Wouse) (1889), oil on canvas. Collection KMSKA - Flemish Community (© Lukas - Art in Flanders VZW / Bridgeman Images) LONDON — ...

Born in Florentine workshops in the early 1400s, realism enjoyed a long run, dominating European art for four centuries. By the mid-1860s it had degenerated into a weary superficiality. This inspired ...

"This is a revised and expanded edition of a book originally published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1989 under the title 'Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: the Annenberg ...

Pierre Bonnard, "Dining Room in the Country," oil on canvas, 1913, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Vividly colorful, the painting is typical of Bonnard: It's both landscape and portrait. The Kimbell Art ...

Henri Matisse once asked Camille Pissarro to define Impressionism. “An Impressionist,” the older painter replied, “is the artist who paints a different picture every time, a painter who never produces ...

The original Impressionists and PreRaphaelites, for instance, remain, while their imitators have disappeared. Up to the middle of the nineteenth century the followers of a sound master at least ...

The Legion of Honor’s exhibition “Impressionists on the Water,” in conjunction with America’s Cup, offers an examination of the important role boating themes played in the social and artistic contexts ...

Do you ever get the ‘Impression” that there is a new show every year about the fin-de-siècle French art scene? What more can be learned? Well, in the hands of a skilled curator the answer is a lot.

A display of 15 canvases by Claude Monet, painted over a 30-year period, is a must-see. You've heard of ride-share and home-share, but did you know that art-share is a thing, too? Come November, the ...

In his masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never sold a ...

IMPRESSIONISM casts its luminous spell on Southeast Asia through Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a major exhibition now on view at the National Gallery Singapore ...

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Japanese art, Impressionism, and other European art styles were heavily linked. Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, created to depict “The Floating World of Edo” (modern-day ...