‘It’s a Very Rich Story’: The Complicated Connection Between Manet and Degas
In their effort to picture modernity, Impressionists painted all the new daytime activities of Paris: from walking the freshly laid promenades to peering through the industrialised glass panes of shops. But they also began to paint the nightlife: the absinthe drinker; the lady of the night; the theatre; the bar girl; the singer. The Impressionists ... See more
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Lilla Perry had met Claude Monet in 1889, and for two decades she spent several months every summer in a rented house next door to the artist’s studio and gardens at Giverny, fifty miles west of Paris along the Seine.
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
“all the Renaissance artists knew their contemporaries. So did the impressionists. There was a moment in their lives when they were all friends or acquaintances. The cubists were not simply individual geniuses.
Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World
Corot and Jean-François Millet, were part of the Barbizon School, a group of plein air painters who lived and worked southwest of Paris and were prized for their rustic landscapes and bucolic genre scenes.
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
The Armory Show would showcase artists most Americans had never seen before, including Brancusi, Braque, Kandinsky, Duchamp, Picasso, and Matisse. American artists would be represented too, such as the Ashcan School painters George Bellows and Robert Henri,