The Impressionists weren’t just making soft-focus dorm posters. Their vision was radical
Their villa at Giverny remained a base of operations throughout their lives. As the century waned, Monet grew bolder: He ...
Impressionism is a war story. But also a love story.
In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive ...
At the Gardner this fall, Manet and family
The new show takes and intimate, biographical approach to the ‘father of Modern art,” and the people he painted.
‘Paris in Ruins’ Review: Romance Amid the Wreckage
As an insurrection is ruthlessly suppressed, two Impressionist painters find their way to each other.
Tracking the French Impressionists, at Work and at War
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian ...
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Synagogue painting on view in major ‘birth’ of Impressionism show in DC
A National Gallery of Art curator told JNS that it is “quite striking” that the only painting in the 1874 Impressionism show ...
Junk food still-lifes go viral
Noah Verrier deploys Impressionist techniques to depict chicken nuggets, cheesesteaks, and a TikTok favorite, the purple ...
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Staging Africa through its own lens in Shanghai
The show's last section, Memory, looks at the ways contemporary artists from Africa draw on collective memory to play with, ...
From art to Buddha and back again: Art director's Itamar Newman’s enlightened journey
Step by step, Newman sought a new way to live. He stopped exhibiting his works, embraced the teachings of the Buddha, moved ...
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Sebastian Smee depicts art rejects who found love, fought war and birthed Impressionism in 'Paris in Ruins'
When the two meet in 1869, Morisot is establishing herself while Manet has spent the decade turning out “one arresting canvas after another, all in a distinctive style.” She poses for him ...