The Impressionist movement, which began in the late 19th century and became a landmark in modern art, was the effort of artists who found that academic standards were stagnating their creative ...

The 19th century landscape paintings ... impressionist Claude Monet and several others tells a tale of two modernizing cities. Low contrast and whiter hues are hallmarks of the impressionist style.

An unlikely place where the history of nursing is clearly visible is in Impressionist paintings ... of women’s invisible labor. In the 19th century, wet-nursing — where women were paid ...

On my way to see "Impressionists on the ... attractive tendency in modern painting? Not a chance. This pleasing survey of marine motifs in late 19th century French art will stoke anticipation ...

In the late 19th ... Impressionists’ exhibitions. During these years, she developed a style characterised by elegant compositions and bold use of colour. But in 1890, she suddenly stopped painting.

In the history of both painting and the culinary arts, late 19th-century France remains an ... Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism. “Anything having to do with food is going to be ...

There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered ... into the rapidly modernizing world of the late 19th century, one the Impressionists so vividly captured.