“Impression” still gives us Impressionism as a Mirror of Modernity, but it does so through the experience of a few skilled manual workers, the artists themselves. No one at the time did more to change ...

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, ...

While many have focused on Monet's Impression, Sunrise as a key Impressionist painting, another image was pivotal to the movement that launched 150 years ago. In art, it's all about the hands – those ...

In 1874, a group of rebellious painters—including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas—exhibited their work in Paris. They would become known as the Impressionists, and they painted scenes from ...

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 ...