PARIS, France — Claude Monet created some of the most famous paintings of the Impressionist movement in the late 19th century. "Impressionists were the first to go outside to paint. They came out of ...
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, ...
On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...
Before Claude Monet was one of the world’s most renowned painters, he was shut out of the Salon, the French Academy art exhibition that showcased the best of what the art world had to offer. Like many ...
”The New Painting,” now showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is an Impressionist exhibition with a twist: The Impressionists are not always the center of attention–nor are the artists ...