Art.view: The next blue chip Jun 22, 2008
During a buoyant market, houses can stick with identified trends and simply persuade holders of old stalwarts such as Picasso and the French Impressionists, for example, to part with their popular pictures. A far more complex and riskier challenge is trying to hand-pick the blue-chip names of the future. (The Economist)
'Women Impressionists' at Legion of Honor Jun 22, 2008
Women Impressionists' at Legion of Honor ... Women Impressionists' at Legion of Honor ... Cannily timed to coincide with summer, the "Women Impressionists" exhibition that opens today at the Legion of Honor figures to have a vigorous impact at the ticket counter. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Picasso's Portrait `Sylvette' Fetches Australian Record of A$6.9 Million Jun 19, 2008
The company will seek to sell more international art, including works by Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, and various French impressionists, Abdallah said. To contact the reporters for this story: Malcolm Scott in Sydney at. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Free shows at Bay Area county fairs Jun 16, 2008
If you're a fan of the art of Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzals or Berthe Morisot - or would like to learn about these 19th century painters - you're in luck this week: "Women Impressionists" opens Saturday at the Legion of Honor. 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. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tip O'Neill play accentuates the politics Jun 15, 2008
"Rich Little or Frank Gorshin would do this differently," he says of the two impressionists. "That's about seeing how skillfully someone can impersonate someone else. I want to capture the heart and soul of Tip, his presence.". (Boston Globe)
Quite Impressive Jun 15, 2008
"Women Impressionists," which opens at the Legion of Honor on Saturday, offers a representative case of a problem that art museums face, or have created for themselves ... The title "Women Impressionists" signals the exhibition's overt intent to redress the precedence given to men in potted histories of late 19th century art ... Feminist art historians began to get noticed in the 1970s for making the obvious, though sometimes strenuously denied, connection between misogyny and the critical... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* [ART JOURNAL] Get a closer look at Pissarro Jun 11, 2008
The Impressionists are celebrating in Taiwan at the moment: the French Impressionists that is, with two major shows taking place contemporaneously: Millet and His Masterpieces from the Musee dOrsay, which opened at the National Museum of History on May 31 and will run through Sept. 5, and Camille Pissarro: Family and Friends at the National Palace Museum, which opened on May 30 and will run through Aug. 17 ... No information is given as to why this British museum should have such a fine... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Greg London -- Extended by Popular Demand Jun 10, 2008
So call me the Bed, Bath and Beyond of impressionists. I want to be the beyond guy. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Maury Regional Healthcare Foundation hosts Art Show, Sale Jun 9, 2008
She paints in the masterful tradition of the great European Impressionists, a tradition she has evolved into a vibrant style which is specially her own. All proceeds from the art show will be used to support the Special Needs Fund through the Maury Regional Healthcare Foundation. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Impressionist art by women at San Francisco museum Jun 3, 2008
The exhibition, "Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond," will run June 21-Sept ... It's open Tuesday-Sunday, 9:30 am5:15 pm; adult admission is $10 plus $5 for the "Women Impressionists" exhibit. (Yahoo News)
Gardens of Modern French Masters Jun 2, 2008
The French Impressionists are famous for their still lifes and lovely landscapes, particularly the artwork of Claude Monet ... Painter Edouard Manet was friends with many of the French Impressionists, though he never formally allied himself with the group and did not exhibit with them. (Suite101.com)
The Impressionists: A Preview May 29, 2008
"The Impressionists" at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas is an exhibition comprised of 92 important paintings from the Art Insitute of Chicago. Ninety-two paintings from the prestigious will be showcased exclusively at the in Fort Worth, Texas in The Impressionists (June 29-November 2, 2008) ... After having been introduced to American artist Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) in Paris (1889), the vivacious socialite began to actively acquire paintings by other Impressionists. (Suite101.com)
Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet May 27, 2008
Artist Berthe Morisot held her own among the male-dominated Impressionists, and her friendship with fellow painter Edouard Manet would influence her career and his own ... Although Manet interacted socially with the Impressionists and adopted some of their ideas, he did not exhibit with them or become one of their formal members. (Suite101.com)
O'Keeffe legacy forever intertwined with Stieglitz May 27, 2008
In the '20s she achieved renown in New York, but O'Keeffe was already doing strikingly original works in the previous decade, such as Canyon With Crows (1917), a lush watercolor in which she synthesizes ideas from the impressionists and Kandinsky, without making work that looks like that of either. You can simply enjoy this exhibition for the O'Keeffes alone. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
CA Museum Exhibits: Summer 2008 May 26, 2008
Women Impressionists: , Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzal;s, Marie Bracquemond (June 21-September 21), shown exclusively in the United States at the Legion of Honor, examines the contributions of four female painters to the Impressionist movement by uniting their images of women at home, with family and at leisure. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco. (Suite101.com)
Great artists and comedians at library May 24, 2008
The Great Artists: The Impressionists. The library recently purchased a fantastic new DVD collection chronicling the lives, times, and work of the great 19th century Impressionist masters. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
Only the lonely: Proulx on Edward Hopper May 16, 2008
After a cold, rainy winter, he enjoyed the Parisian spring; he was impressed by the impressionists and his palette colours moved toward pastel tones. He returned to Paris twice, in 1909 and, briefly, 1910. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Mrs. Obvious May 2, 2008
Wednesday's episode of "Bob began like any other morning, all humor lived up to low expectations. Then they announced they would be talking to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton later on in the show.They regularly have impressionists on the show, including someone who, pretending to be Bill Clinton, does the standard "I'm horny, don't tell my wife" jokes that we've all come to associate with the former president. So, even though the promo sounded serious, I assumed that this interview would be just... (Daily Iowan, IA)
FAA Announces New Measures to Improve Air Travel Experience May 2, 2008
Other exhibitions include The Art Books of Henri Matisse; American Impressionists; The Wyeth Family: Three Generations; Andy Warhol Portfolios; the Hewitt Collection of African-American Art; and Art of the West featuring works by Oscar Berninghaus, Alfred J. Miller, E. Irvin Couse, Frank Tenney Johnson and others. Additional shows curated from the Bank of America Art Exhibition's extensive collection of paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and art objects will be seen at the St. Louis... (Saint Louis Front Page)
BofA launches art-exhibition program Apr 17, 2008
Other exhibitions include The Art Books of Henri Matisse, American Impressionists, The Wyeth Family: Three Generations, the Hewitt Collection of African-American Art and Art of the West. BofA (NYSE:BAC) is based in Charlotte. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
'Remington Looking West' recalls the end of an era Apr 15, 2008
He picked up some of this from American Impressionists, including his pal Childe Hassam. Also, by then the West had, so to speak, been won. (Boston Globe)
New Currier Museum of Art Opens Apr 11, 2008
American Impressionists who worked on the state s seacoast are also represented: Childe Hassam, William Metcalf and J. Appleton Brown, whose painting View from Celia Thaxter's Veranda, Appledore, Isles of Shoals is part of the permanent collection ... The European collection, spanning from the late Middle Ages through the work of the Impressionists, shows works by Tiepolo, Constable and Monet in a gallery whose centerpiece is the 16th-century tapestry The Visit of the Gypsies. (Suite101.com)
Great Art Speaks to You and This Summer It's Saying, ''Come to San Francisco'' Apr 1, 2008
Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzals and Marie Bracquemond at the Legion of Honor; June 21-Sept. 21. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Asian buyers seeking undervalued contemporary art in Japan Mar 24, 2008
In the booming 1980s, the Japanese did buy art, mostly by European Impressionists. Art was displayed in department stores as a way to pull in crowds and increase sales of merchandise. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Winter 'InColor' Examines Racism, Pride and Beauty Mar 22, 2008
He shares his musical inspiration with KIRO 7s Deborah Horne, along with the great French Impressionists who have influenced his art. InColor continues with baritone Gordon Hawkins, reflecting on his unique position of being one of few black men of note in the world of opera. (KIRO TV, WA)
'Flowers' in full flourish at BOI's in New Hope Mar 22, 2008
Also on exhibit is "Woman Gardening," by Andr; Gisson, 1921-2003, who traveled widely in Europe, where he came under the influence of the style and technique of the French Impressionists. In this painting, he portrays a woman bending to tend her garden. (NJ.com -- Times)
Thin on the ground Mar 21, 2008
Each of these sections tries to cover a range of topics, while we follow the overall evolution of landscape painting from its topographical roots, through the upheavals of the romantic period, and then to the radical experiments of the impressionists and post-impressionists ... Most of the leading figures are represented by a painting or two and there are some surprises - notably a breathtaking small landscape by the American artist Martin Johnson Heade, two thrilling volcano pictures by Dahl,... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Artist Frdric Bazille Mar 17, 2008
Additionally, the 2006 BBC miniseries The Impressionists is available on DVD and focuses on an elderly Claude Monet s recollection of his life as an artist, and includes his friendship with Bazille and remorse over his early death. Sources. (Suite101.com)
Impressionism in a softer, domestic light Mar 17, 2008
The Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt has grouped roughly 150 works by four women Impressionists - Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzal ... Looking at Morisot's self-portrait from 1885, it is not hard to understand why critics called her "the most impressionistic of the Impressionists." Morisot's extremely broad, visible brushstrokes create a woman gazing self-confidently at the viewer, her face, with a small mouth that almost wants to smile, set off by a dark scarf ... The home provided much... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Books About Art For Kids Mar 10, 2008
Anholt has many titles that include: Leonardo and the Flying Boy, The Magical Garden of Claude Monet, Camille and the Sunflowers, and Katie Meets the Impressionists. have a nice marriage of fiction versus non-fiction that may make the experience of learning about a famous artist more personal for children and less textbook-ish. (Suite101.com)
Marco Sassone Debuts "Toronto" Urban Landscape Exhibition at Odon Wagner Contemporary April 4-26, 2008 Mar 5, 2008
Sassone's powerfully expressive gestural style is rooted in the tradition of the 19th century Italian impressionists, "the Macchiaioli," and has developed in the context of 20th century European and American Art. The most poignant and enduring influences can be traced back to his studies in the 1960's with painter Silvio Loffredo who was a student of the Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka. (Canada Newswire)
Artist Willard Metcalf Feb 27, 2008
Following this fresh start, which he would call his Impressionist Renaissance, Metcalf focused on painting New England landscapes and became a founding member of a group of American Impressionists known as The Ten. Metcalf worked closely with The Ten painters Childe Hassam and John Twachtman, spending time at the artists colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut and then at another collective in New Hampshire. (Suite101.com)
Teaching a computer to appreciate art Feb 26, 2008
A sudden switch in painting techniques by the same artist, on the other hand, could present a far greater challenge, as would trying to distinguish painters with very similar brushstrokes, like some of the 19th century Impressionists. Keren said he plans to significantly expand his project to include far more artists, including ones who have adopted similar styles. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Grey's anatomy Feb 23, 2008
As for the Impressionists, we tend to think they were obsessed with warmth and colour and light. But like Whistler, Monet's later studies of the Thames were often undertaken on dismal and foggy days, and grey is much in evidence on these canvasses as a result. (BBC News -- UK)
Stolen paintings found in Zurich Feb 20, 2008
It also features works by other Impressionists and early Modernist painters like Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Chagall, as well as medieval sculptures, Gothic altarpieces and Old Masters. Switzerland has seen a spate of art thefts in recent weeks, including two paintings by Pablo Picasso worth $4. (iAfrica.com)
Internationally known Western artist Hugh Cabot dies at 75 (20) Feb 16, 2008
After the Korean War, he studied at Oxford and explored the world of art in the Orient and in Europe where he was vastly impressed, he said, with the Great Masters, such as Rembrandt, and the French Impressionists. Prior to that, he said, his ambitions were directed toward emulating the works of Western artists Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and Will James. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Armed robbers steal 4 masterworks in Zurich Feb 12, 2008
The collection is considered to be one of the biggest privately owned collections of French impressionists 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: Monet's "Poppy Field at Vetheuil," "Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter" by Edgar Degas, Van Gogh's "Blooming Chestnut Branches," and C. (International Herald Tribune)
Tarble Arts Center presents work by landscape artist Jan 30, 2008
This tradition dates back to the French Impressionists and has been adopted by many artists since (including 20th-century Charleston artist Paul T. Sargent) ... Whitehouse has stated that his work is a reaction to the Impressionists art, particularly Claude Monet s Rouen series, and Whitehouse sees his art as a contemporary extension of their art. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Acknowledging, finally, the work of women artists Jan 18, 2008
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Female nudes in the exhibition include Lotte Laserstein's "The Morning Wash," 1930. Published: January 18, 2008. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Dreaming of a taste of honey Jan 9, 2008
His photos are more influenced by the Impressionists rather than any photographers. "Van Gogh, the colours and the textures, definitely," Makarenko says. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Letters: Artist: All art is beautiful, historical murals included Dec 25, 2007
I know the impressionists and the history of graffiti. I know Picasso and Matisse and Grandma Moses. (Daily Triplicate)
Exhibition axed in tit-for-tat spat Dec 20, 2007
The collection, drawn from three museums in Moscow and one in St Petersburg, would have included works by Russian impressionists and post-impressionists including Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich. But Irinia Antonova, the director of the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow, said that everything had been called off. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Beyond Fairy Tales Dec 8, 2007
These pages will expose children from age 6 upwards to work of many styles -- Dutch Old Masters, Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, Pointillists, Surrealists -- while the chatty text covers each work and invites children to think about how paintings and sculpture evoke the reactions they do. Parents may give "Golden Legacy" by Leonard S. Marcus (Random House, $40) to their children and then gobble it up themselves. (Wall Street Journal)
Hotel Sezz in Paris Dec 6, 2007
And don't miss the unparalleled collection of Impressionists and post-Impressionists at the nearby Mus. e Marmottan Monet. (Globe and Mail)
* The scientific potential of painting Dec 1, 2007
The vivid sunsets painted by J.M.W. Turner are revered for their use of color and light and for their influence on the Impressionists. But could they also help global warming experts track climate change. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Letters: An outsider's perspective: Murals beautify Del Norte Nov 30, 2007
No doubt the art community had the same reaction to many of the impressionists that today we consider beautiful pieces of art. As an outsider visiting your lovely seaside community I say bravo to all those who participated in the making of those murals. (Daily Triplicate)
Scientists useart to track climate change Nov 29, 2007
LONDON - The vivid sunsets painted by J.M.W. Turner are revered for their use of color and light and for their influence on the Impressionists. But could they also help global warming experts track climate change. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Maverick artists Hopper, Turner share the spotlight Nov 25, 2007
Afterward, he traveled in Europe, where the Impressionists' concern with light and fin-de-siecle subject matter supplemented the influence of Henri's gritty urban realism. Movies also played a prominent role in Hopper's aesthetic. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Book Review: Modernism Nov 22, 2007
From seminal figures like Baudelaire and Flaubert, he moves right along to the Impressionists and then, taking the various art forms in turn, advances chronologically through the great debacle wrought by fascism and World War II before wrapping up with such postwar phenomena as Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Holiday Gifts: Museum Books 2007 Nov 13, 2007
et al. Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past (exh ... How the Impressionists studied the traditions and techniques of the European Old Masters who preceded them is documented in this groundbreaking study. (Suite101.com)
GMOA exhibit focuses on scenes in nature Nov 13, 2007
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Tank Stream dreaming Nov 13, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Imagine if a stream running under Sydney's CBD was brought to the surface. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
In Which World Gallery Nov 12, 2007
" It resides in the Frick Collection in New York. The Haywain by John Constable In this painting (1821) the mill belonged to Constable s father and the house on the left to a neighbor, Willy Lott, who supposedly never left the place for more than four days in his lifetime. Lott s cottage has survived to today virtually intact. Today it is revered as one of the greatest British paintings and hangs in the National Gallery, London. The Kleptomaniac by Theodore Gricault This (1822) is one of a... (Suite101.com)
Arie Tulus: Coming to terms with intolerance Nov 5, 2007
Round the corner are shrill acrylic landscapes in the style of the European impressionists, some stacked by the walls, others tacked to the ceiling, for this man is prolific and painting himself out of space. The troubled Dutch expressionist Vincent Van Gogh is one of Arie's art heroes, along with the American splash-and-smear abstractionist Jackson Pollock. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Artrain arrives with Indian culture Oct 30, 2007
As he experimented with different styles, drawing on the Impressionists and Expressionists, Street "took what he needed to know and went from there." Bold strokes and colors play out the sounds he heard and played as a musical artist. "Being self-taught is an advantage," he said, "in that doors are always open for new development. My art will always have a primitive feel to it and I try to give it movement and life." Bill Abel has studied the arts for several years under Sammy Britt, who taught... (Clarksdale Press Register, MS)
Art as child’s play Oct 20, 2007
So much for the theory that the Impressionists changed everything. Meanwhile, a documentary film recently showed up in theaters that asked some trenchant questions about the way we measure the value of art. (Montana Standard, MT)
A High view of Impressionism's roots Oct 19, 2007
This is the case this week, as Atlanta's High Museum of Art couples its public opening of a second year of Louvre-fueled shows from Paris, France, with an exhibition about influences on the Impressionists. "Inspiring Impressionism" is organized by the Denver Art Museum. (CNN -- Travel)
The Sunshine Boy Oct 13, 2007
The last time there was a major Turner show in the U.S., 41 years ago, he was treated as a forerunner not only of the Impressionists but also of the Abstract Expressionists and color-field painters, of Mark Rothko and his pulsing fogs or Morris Louis and his washes of diluted pigment. But in recent years, scholars have been at pains to draw Turner back into the context of his times, to emphasize that he was eager to paint history and contemporary events and to look to the past as much as the... (Time.com)
Spirit of the box-tickers Oct 9, 2007
Adulation of visitor numbers; anxiety to please patrons and sponsors; desperation to stay friendly with the Friends - all this has encouraged a play-safe inoffensiveness, of which the recent prize example has been the Royal Academy's Impressionists by the Sea. Marketing officers' views now count for more than those of specialist curators. (Guardian Unlimited)
Drunken Gang Punches Hole In Masterpiece Oct 8, 2007
Armed thieves marched into an open museum in the southern French city of Nice in August and stole four paintings by Impressionists Monet and Sisley, and Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder. A woman is due to go on trial this week for kissing a painting by the US artist Cy Twombly on show in Avignon - leaving lipstick smudges on the canvas. (Sky News)
Popping the art bubble Oct 7, 2007
Old masters are mostly locked up in museums and the best impressionists and postimpressionists are in short supply ... AMR s index of French impressionists rose sixfold in the second half of the 1980s but gave up all these gains after Japanese property prices collapsed at the end of the decade. (Times Online)
Sophisticated taste: Paris museum restaurants Sep 29, 2007
You can imagine Marcel Proust and his friends sitting here (when it was the ballroom of the hotel adjoining the Orsay train station), gossiping of the rebels not yet known as the Impressionists, whose work now hangs in the museum. The recently renovated kitchen specializes in subtly simplified versions of traditional cuisine -- grilled sea bream fillet or duck-and-peach supreme served with gratin dauphinois. (CNN -- Travel)
More of this story Sep 26, 2007
Impressionists, like Howard, depict natural appearances of objects by means of dabs or strokes, primarily with unmixed colors in order to stimulate actual reflected light. She wouldn't call herself a watercolor artist, she is an artist period and quite honestly, a work of art in herself the full embodiment of what art is meant to be. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Longy School of Music Announces SeptemberFest 2007 Sep 14, 2007
TURNING POINT: FROM THE ROMANTICS TO THE IMPRESSIONISTS. BRAHMS: Two Rhapsodies, Op. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Sunday Forum: Stirring the pot Sep 9, 2007
Early Carnegie Internationals caused quite a stir when they first introduced the daring work of the Impressionists. And creationists continue to challenge the very existence of the evolution documented by our fantastic dinosaur collection, as well as our vertebrate paleontologists' ongoing research into the evolution of mammals. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
