Women In Art Jul 6, 2008
In the attention it places on the subjects the artists undertook and the way they treated them, the Legion's Impressionism show raises enduring questions about the social norms and conventions women face ... "Women Impressionism" offers testimony, at once stirring and poignant, about artists finding a means of vibrant expression even when certain routes for it were damned up or blocked off. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Artist finds her stroke Jul 6, 2008
She wasnt afraid to use more colors, her use of shadowing became complex, her style moved further away from traditional Western to a more European impressionism. Her edges softened, and the paintings exploded with color combinations that left other painters in the class hovering around her, observing her technique. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
WORKS BY BRIT ARTIST STILL A REAL HEAD-TURNER Jul 2, 2008
and the first glimmers of what came to be called impressionism. There are nearly 150 oils, watercolors and drawings here in all, more than half of them on loan from London's Tate Britain (the former National Gallery), keeper of the Joseph Mallord William Turner flame. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
South Abington artist combines music, painting and humanity Jun 29, 2008
When you re in California, you see the guy set up on the street, but I just can t do that, Mr. Rishko, who also dabbles in impressionism and realism, said. I like working at home. (Scranton Times, PA)
'So true, so intimate' Jun 28, 2008
Realism, impressionism, positivism: all those demands to grab at the world quickly and urgently - whether its substance were to prove as hefty as Courbet's paint, or as liquid as Monet's, this modest canvas declined them, politely standing aside. Not only all the dapple and glitter of the energetic 19th century were being shown the door by Hammersh;i, but also all the clutter. (Guardian Unlimited)
Free shows at Bay Area county fairs Jun 16, 2008
Chronicle Art Critic Kenneth Baker offers some insight into the show - and into Impressionism as a breakthrough for female painters in Paris - in the Scenes story that begins on Page 20. Much of the Screens section is devoted to David Wiegand's capsule reviews of the best movies being offered during the first week of Frameline32, the LGBT Film Festival. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Quite Impressive Jun 15, 2008
The evidence of letters, of exhibition records, of at least some contemporary journalism - and of the artworks themselves - attests that the tendency we know as Impressionism marked something of a breakthrough moment for female painters in Paris, especially in the eyes of their male colleagues. One scholar has shown that 19th century detractors of Impressionist style frequently derided it as "feminized" because it dwelt on transient sensations and a kind of domestic lyricism. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Helene Mukhtar: East-West Graffiti Jun 14, 2008
For instance, Impressionism with its fluidity and spontaneity was in retrospect seen as a reaction to the Industrial Age from which the first precisely manufactured mass produced objects the world had known came. . (AbsoluteArts.com)
One viewer just says no to the high of high-definition TV Jun 8, 2008
Like the difference between Impressionism and Surrealism, it's a matter of taste. HDTV offers great potential to storytellers who want to utilize every inch of screen space. (Boston Globe)
A Driving Force Jun 8, 2008
"That was so different from being in an Impressionism class, where you studied the brush strokes.". In Sullivan's "multidimensional" approach, "it was not just about the object but the whole environment in which it was created and interpreted. That really informed how I thought about art.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The saddest story Jun 7, 2008
This is literary impressionism of Jamesian subtlety yet with a crisper delivery; it is also the most perfectly deployed example of the unreliable narrator. But what it absolutely is not is muddle; all is utterly under the novelist's control. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Art Alley gets facelift Jun 1, 2008
Alley founder Todd Rigione -- who first painted over graffiti there about five years ago -- and some of the people who own buildings along the alley want less tagging and more painting, whether it's pop art or impressionism. "There's some just incredible artists here, and then someone just comes and tags it," said Annette Ross, who works at Global Market and regrets that someone painted over a Superman mural across her store's back door. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
The lure of the street May 31, 2008
As the name suggests, the idea was to make painterly photographs, images that had the subjective blur or atmospheric haze - another misunderstanding - of impressionism. With this aim, negatives and prints were physically worked on as though they were little canvases by photographers who - the hands-on approach proved it - were indeed artists. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
'A modern American romantic' May 31, 2008
The Portsmouth Historical Society exhibit, "From Impressionism to Yankee Modernism: Portsmouth and the New Hampshire Coast," runs June 1-Oct ... About 40 paintings will be on display in the Athenaeum's Randall Gallery for "The Art of the Domestic: Kittery and Southern Maine." Another 50 or so works will be at a Portsmouth Historical Society exhibit at the Discover Portsmouth Center at Middle and Islington Streets, "From Impressionism to Yankee Modernism: Portsmouth and the New Hampshire Coast."... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
The Impressionists: A Preview May 29, 2008
She was responsible for many Americans' initial exposure to French Impressionism through her presentation of modern European paintings at 1893's World Columbian Exposition ... Wood, James N. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago. (Suite101.com)
Review: Discovering Great Artists May 26, 2008
Artists from the Renaissance to the present time are included, covering artistic styles such as cubism, abstract, cartoon, naturalism, impressionism and folk art. Activities are as diverse as the artists themselves, with Invention Art (Da Vinci), Action Spatter (Pollock), Starry night (Van Gogh), Colour Collage (Matisse) and Comic Dots (Lichtenstein). (Suite101.com)
New England artists survey showing May 26, 2008
Luminism , transcendentalist inspired landscape ; hudson river school , barbizon school , impressionism. post-impressionism , fauvism , cubism , exressionism , abstract Expressionism. (Medfield Press, MA)
Francisco Oller y Cestero, La Batalla de Trevino to be on Public View for the First Time Ever May 26, 2008
Stylistically, the painting embodies Ollers mature work the subject and mood of the painting are clearly inspired by aspects of Spanish Realism; while the loose, rapid brushwork and atmospheric, temporal qualities of the scene suggest his absorption of the principles of Impressionism, a style which no doubt suited Ollers desire to capture on canvas the visual effects of the immediacy of the moment as it unfolded at chaotic and lightning speed ... Puerto Ricos most accomplished and beloved... (AbsoluteArts.com)
A brush with Picasso May 24, 2008
By the time he arrived, Impressionism was imploding ... Picasso was not interested in Impressionism, but was intent on finding a new style to distinguish himself ... "It was Cezanne who had rejected Impressionism, who had turned the page. And the way he paints, like creating a mosaic or an applique, was completely different.". (Courier Mail)
American artists in Giverny focus at the Flo Gris May 23, 2008
Old Lyme became known as the "American Giverny," and the Florence Griswold House, the heart of the Lyme Art Colony, became known as the home of American Impressionism. "This exhibition allows visitors to consider not only the importance of Giverny for the development of American Impressionism but also the central role Americans played in the village's artistic history," said Katherine M. Bourguignon, associate curator at the Mus. (Pictorial Gazette, CT)
Monet to Picasso From the Cleveland Museum of Art June 23 - September 21, 2008 May 17, 2008
More than seventy paintings and sculptures by luminaries of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Dadaism, Cubism, and Surrealism are gathered together in this singular exhibition. Most notably, the exhibition includes key works by Courbet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Picasso, Dal, and others. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Art market shows strength at Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern Art May 8, 2008
"The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil" painted in 1873, as Impressionism was bursting out on the artistic scene, shot up to a breathtaking $41 ... One was an admirable landscape done by Van Gogh shortly after he discovered Impressionism in its Divisionist form following his arrival in Paris. (International Herald Tribune)
Record price for Monet at auction May 7, 2008
Three bidders competed for the painting, "The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil," which is considered a prime example of high Impressionism. Christie's had predicted the canvas would fetch $35 million. (International Herald Tribune)
Italy from Bonaparte to the Belle Époque May 2, 2008
This homegrown Tuscan school of "en plein air Impressionism" of the 1850s and '60s took its name - which means the "daubers" or "blotchers" - from the rude remarks of a critic, which they subsequently proudly adopted. The Macchiaioli were republican in politics and not only painted together but also fought together in the wars of independence (in which Raffaello Sernesi lost his life in 1866). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Eccentric artiste Apr 21, 2008
Her paintings, like their creator, are eclectic - abstracts, landscapes, still lives, Impressionism and, in recent years, studies of the 1920s Paris night, with emphasis on portraiture. "The first painting I sold was at the sidewalk art show in Linn Park, a large abstract," Evans recalls. (AL.com)
19th century European art on show in Beijing Mar 31, 2008
BEIJING, March 31 -- "From Academia to Impressionism -- Master Pieces of the 19th century European paintings" is currently taking over Beijing's art scene. The exhibition is not about the presentation of art history, as you might expect from typical museum experiences. (Xinhuanet, China)
Feature story: Dynamic design Mar 29, 2008
Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements: All of these filtered into a culture whose relatively uniform aesthetic had been refined over a period of several centuries. Also from Europe came new synthetic dyes, both for printing and for textiles. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Thin on the ground Mar 21, 2008
Here you feel the absence of a painting by Whistler, the crucial mid-point between French impressionism and its Australian manifestations. The equally influential Jules Bastien-Lepage is represented by one small but intriguing snowy landscape, borrowed from San Francisco. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Impressionism in a softer, domestic light Mar 17, 2008
Max Hollein, the Schirn's director, argues that the exhibit rectifies a long-standing blind spot in the German art world's view of Impressionism, which never had much time for the women in the movement ... And Mary Cassatt, because of the popular reception of Impressionism in the United States during her own lifetime, never slipped out of art history's view. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
EXHIBITIONISTS Mar 16, 2008
"And the town of Kent nearby also has an art association with a long history rooted in American Impressionism.". In addition to running monthly exhibitions and year-round classes, the association hosts regular lectures by artists from all over the country and spearheads a self-guided local gallery tour. (Boston Globe)
American Pianist Grace Nikae Mar 15, 2008
Nikae's interests are educational as well: she regularly gives workshops, masterclasses, recital lectures and interdisciplinary lectures connecting music to other fields in the arts (such as French Impressionism or German Romantic Poetry). Listeners who want a fast and easy introduction to Grace Nikae should view a clip of her performance of the Third Movement of Rachmaninoff's 1st Concerto, available on YouTube. (Suite101.com)
Sweeping tapestry of 19th Century European art on show in Bei00004000jing Mar 6, 2008
There's a preliminary showing in Beijing of an exhibition with the long name of - "From Academia to Impressionism - Masterpieces of the 19th Century European Paintings from the Perez Simon Collection". The showing at Beijing's World Art Museum offers a brisk, idiosyncratic run - through a century of Western painting. (Xinhuanet, China)
Teaching a computer to appreciate art Feb 26, 2008
As for trying to identify potential look-alikes, he said his program could begin by classifying paintings according to a general group Impressionism versus Surrealism, for instance and then sort within each group according to increasingly fine-tuned physical traits. Keren is "cautiously optimistic" that his mathematical program might eventually be useful in detecting fakes. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
'Plein Air Past and Present' showcases continuity in painting Feb 25, 2008
Plein air, which literally means open air in French, is often associated with French impressionism. But it has a longer and broader history that includes American painters of the 19th century. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
From Visigoths to vivid shots Feb 24, 2008
The combination of the area's natural beauty and its proximity to the capital attracted numerous painters and photographers, such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot; the leading founders of the Barbizon School of painting, Jean-Fran ois Francois Millet and Th odore Rousseau; Gustave Le Gray and Claude Monet, whose landscapes in Fontainebleau helped inspire Impressionism. This exhibition includes some 120 paintings, photographs, and pastels. (Boston Globe)
Vero museum puts on brave face Feb 18, 2008
That show was an international exhibition of modern art and introduced America to major movements, including impressionism, fauvism, symbolism and cubism. This fundamental shift in the essence of portraiture continues in early 20th-century works on display in the show, such as Luigi Lucioni's nearly photorealistic "Rose Hobart" (1934 oil on canvas) and Leon Kroll's sensuous nude "Hilda" (1947 oil on canvas), which reveals both the cubism and art-deco movements. (Florida Today)
The World's Greatest Art Heists Feb 18, 2008
Another blockbuster crime was the theft of nine paintings--including Renoir's "Bathers" and Monet's "Impression, Soleil Levant," which gave Impressionism its name--from the Marmottan Museum in Paris in November 1985. The police at first theorized that the radical group Action Direct had committed the crime. (Forbes)
Zurich art museum robbed of a Cézanne, a Degas, a Van Gogh and a Monet Feb 12, 2008
The museum contains what is considered to be one of the largest privately owned collections of French Impressionism in the world. While one held a pistol and ordered visitors and staff members to lie on the floor in the main room of the museum, the two other men removed the four paintings from the wall: Claude Monet's "Poppy Field at V?theuil," Edgar Degas's "Ludovic Lepic and his daughter," Vincent van Gogh's "Blooming Chestnut Branches" and Paul C. (International Herald Tribune)
Auction sales booming Feb 9, 2008
The second lot, a beautiful, melancholic view of a village road late on a midwinter day, done by Pissarro in 1872 when Impressionism had not yet defined itself, still sold modestly for 468,500, slightly over the low estimate. But then the sight of the third painting, the portrait of a girl with a bow done by Alexej von Jawlensky in 1911 at the end of his Expressionist phase, galvanized the room into action. (International Herald Tribune)
Auctions: Sotheby's sale shows that in the art market, the party goes on Feb 8, 2008
Later a magnificent, and exceedingly rare, landscape of a hamlet under snow painted by Monet in 1867, a good three years before the first signs of Impressionism, fetched 4. 27 million. (International Herald Tribune)
auctions: At Christies, 2nd highest ever European auction Feb 7, 2008
Pissarro was one of the founding fathers of Impressionism. Dated 1872, "The Louveciennes Road" is a deeply poetic view of a French village in which the sketchy brushwork of Impressionism in the making is combined with the melancholic mood of the preceding Barbizon school ... It is charged with a dramatic intensity that is alien to Impressionism. (International Herald Tribune)
Deft portrayal Jan 31, 2008
Despite making four trips to Europe and studying several styles including impressionism during the 1920s, Wood is mostly associated with regionalism that primarily was based in the Midwest. Milligan deftly recreated Wood's life from the artist's boyhood to his death from pancreatic cancer in 1942. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Russian show wows art lovers Jan 26, 2008
They commissioned paintings from the biggest names in Impressionism and post-Impressionism. By 1914, Shchukin had accumulated 37 Matisses, 16 Gauguins, four Van Goghs, eight Cezannes and 50 Picassos. (BBC News -- Europe)
Philip Conisbee, 62; former curator at LACMA, National Gallery Jan 22, 2008
zanne move away from less interesting still-life paintings and adopt the vivid brush style of Impressionism. "You couldn't imagine biting into one of his apples, yet at the same time they seem to have the quintessence of appleness," Conisbee told NPR.. (Los Angeles Times)
High's ticket price hike will be permanent Dec 29, 2007
Individual adult ticket buyers now pay $18 up from $15 to see the two current blockbuster exhibits, year two of Louvre Atlanta and "Inspiring Impressionism.". Becky Stein/SPECIAL. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The story of 'Rankin' Dec 25, 2007
"The gray-black and smoke-laden industrial Pittsburgh, its cityscape and landscapes, were transposed through the eyes of this artist into brilliant color and light of French Impressionism.". His students -- along with Parcell, Nesbert and Rosenberg, there were Wilfred Readio, Raymond Simboli and Russell Twiggs -- "all recall with fondness their memories of Sparks as a person of great warmth, kindness and sincere devotion to the arts.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Critic's Log: 20 turning points in art Dec 13, 2007
13: Joseph Mallord William Turner's The Slave Ship as another political comment, but more important as the first glimmerings of a kind of Impressionism in paint, and the turning point where what we now call Modernism has not its birth, but at least its conception. 14: Edouard Manet, The Fife Player, as the birth of that Modernism, flat, ironic, oblique. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
I'm not bizarre Dec 13, 2007
Heightened colour in a pre-Raphaelite painting was compared with the same thing in impressionism, and the way forms relate in Gothic architecture was compared to how they did it in the Renaissance. In every case you had to see it to understand it. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Fine arts happenings Dec 8, 2007
The categories tend to remain stable - Impressionism is good for a dozen titles a year alone - and every year brings forth a couple of hundred volumes of varying degrees of sumptuousness. Hard to believe that it s almost 2008 and black people. (The Palm Beach Post)
Shows showcase works by locals William Glen Crooks, Andy Ralph Dec 7, 2007
He doesn't question the basic premise, intact until impressionism, that a landscape should appear as if it mirrors the world. But like all genuinely interesting conservative artists Edward Hopper would be a prime example Crooks doesn't simply repeat the past. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
In Search of Lost Time Nov 24, 2007
The Paris art scene, birthplace of Impressionism, Surrealism and other major -isms, has been supplanted, at least in commercial terms, by New York City and London. Auction houses in France today account for only about 8% of all public sales of contemporary art, calculates Alain Quemin, a researcher at France's University of Marne-La-Vall;e, compared with 50% in the U.S. and 30% in Britain. (Time.com)
Holiday Gifts: Museum Books 2007 Nov 13, 2007
et al. Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past (exh ... Essential reading for any serious student of art history and devotee of Impressionism. (Suite101.com)
Art class offers inmates new skills, perspective Nov 11, 2007
The course covers Impressionism, cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, performance art, conceptual art, and contemporary artists. Other inmates sometimes taunt the artists, but many are intrigued, said Michael Duff, an inmate in the class who is serving time for assault. (Boston Globe)
Museum provides world class displays right here in Northwoods Nov 10, 2007
The Woodson's autumn exhibition is all about art too, boasting a variety of styles ranging from exacting realism to painterly impressionism and fanciful expressionism ... The internationally acclaimed Birds In Art is an annual juried exhibition that showcases a variety of artistic styles, from impressionism to satirical caricature, created by artists the world over and documented in a full color catalogue. (Rhinelander Daily News, WI)
AUCTIONS: At Christie's auction, a 1937 Matisse sets a record at $34 million Nov 8, 2007
One of the finest landscapes painted by Pissarro - a founding father of Impressionism - sold under the low end of the estimate. At $2. (International Herald Tribune)
Caustic postwar art, through German eyes Nov 6, 2007
It can be argued that Impressionism killed off historical painting, and with it the tradition of portraying military victories on canvas. Yet the genre was not quite dead. (International Herald Tribune)
Beauty in the basement Nov 4, 2007
"They could have shown them at least once or twice on a thematic basis, say, under the headings of impressionism or expressionism,'' said Mr Sami-Azar, who staged a five-month exhibition of the entire collection just before stepping down as director in 2005. "That wouldn't occupy the whole museum. You don't have to show them all at once. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Asian Artists Paint the Color Of Money Nov 3, 2007
There, the idiom was Western classical with a dash of impressionism thrown in for modern ;lan. Even today, Vietnamese students at the Hanoi Fine Arts University, as the French-founded school is now known, spend an entire year sketching nude models, a rigorous exercise that has been abandoned at many Western art institutes. (Time.com)
* Van Gogh's homecoming depends on generosity of donors Nov 1, 2007
The opportunity to buy a Van Gogh painting is rare, and his works are among the world's most expensive, said David Norman, chairman of impressionism and modern art at Sotheby's. The record for a Van Gogh painting was set in 1990 when the Portrait du Dr. Gachet sold for US$82. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Culture in Iran Oct 29, 2007
"They could have shown them at least once or twice on a thematic basis, say, under the headings of impressionism or expressionism. That wouldn't occupy the whole museum. You don't have to show them all at once," said Mr Sami-Azar, who staged a five-month exhibition of the entire collection just before stepping down as director in 2005. "They haven't exposed them at all in the last couple of years because the policy of the culture and Islamic guidance ministry is not to promote western art or... (Guardian Unlimited)
Painter Robert Ferrandini pushes past tragedy Oct 26, 2007
In "Untitled 2," Ferrandini sets off the shivering luminescence of a lake with a sharply defined, narrow, blossoming cherry tree in the foreground, marrying the lyricism of Asian landscape painting with the light-and-color confetti of Impressionism, albeit muted under a watery sky. For someone who has not only mastered a new hand, but a new medium, Ferrandini has created an impressive body of work. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Russia's art safe for London show Oct 25, 2007
It will explore the links between French and Russian art during a period of rich artistic developments, including Impressionism. Matisse's The Dance has never before been seen in the UK, while other works to be shown include Manifesto of October 17 by Ilya Repin and Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev by Leon Bakst, both Russian artists. (BBC News -- Europe)
From Russia, with some concern Oct 23, 2007
As well as showing masterpieces of French impressionism and post-impressionism, the exhibition - called From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 - will bring to London great works by Russian painters. While absorbing influences from Paris, in many cases directly through the great collections of Shchukin, these artists created work that was anything but derivative. (Guardian Unlimited)
A High view of Impressionism's roots Oct 19, 2007
"Inspiring Impressionism" looks at Old Masters, other influences on modern art ... "Inspiring Impressionism" runs through January 31, 2008, at the High Museum ... "Inspiring Impressionism" is organized by the Denver Art Museum. (CNN -- Travel)
Sutherland Serves as Exclusive Corporate Sponsor of the High Museum of Art's Immortal Inspirations Gala Oct 6, 2007
The gala also serves as the unveiling of Inspiring Impressionism, an exhibition featuring more than 80 masterworks from the world's greatest Impressionist artists, including Monet, Cezanne, and Degas. The black-tie gala will include exclusive exhibition previews and a seated dinner in the High's luminescent setting. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
