In April 1874, 150 years ago, the Impressionists held their first exhibition together in the studio of Felix Nadar on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris. It was a less-than-complimentary review by ...

Monet, Morisot, Degas, and others dismantled the rigid artistic standards of 19th-century European painting to found the first avant-garde art movement. It might seem like gilding the lily to devote a ...

THE WORLD was not always an arena of Claude Monet superfans. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy, an art critic, when describing Monet’s ...

In the 1870s, Parisian artists broke from rigid academic traditions to paint the immediacy of life with visible brushstrokes and luminous color. This bold move created Impressionism, a movement that ...

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 ...

Monet, Renoir and Degas delight at the National Gallery of Art, but works by their lesser-known contemporaries paint a fuller picture of the birth of Impressionism.