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, ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar Degas. She wants the world to understand that he painted so much more than dancers and laundresses and did so in a variety of ...

The stylistically mercurial artist’s status within Impressionism has long been subject to debate, but an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum positions him at its forefront.

While French Impressionism is often the most talked-about art movement, American artists in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries carved out their own distinct voice with it and created American ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

Most people are familiar with terms such as oil painting, acrylic or watercolour. Many people are also highly knowledgeable about artistic movements within painting, such as Impressionism, Cubism or ...

Researchers have developed a new strategy that uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) to acquire both the surface and underlying details of impressionist style oil paintings. This information can be ...