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La Psyché': London's National Gallery obtains its first Eva Gonzalès Impressionist painting

Art news • Apr 19, 2024 • 2 minutes read

The acquisition, occurring just a month before the museum's 200th anniversary, marks Gonzalès as only the 20th female artist whose work is included in the collection...

Top 10 Impressionist Paintings

Impressionism • 12 minutes read

How did Impressionism come into being? Like all things, it started with an idea! The artists in question decided to paint the reality around them in a very simple way, leaving aside the more complex and well-trodden historical and mythological subjects...

Claude Monet

Claude Monet • 10 minutes read

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French painter and one of the leading figures of the Impressionist movement in the late 19th century. He is best known for his series of paintings depicting water lilies and his innovative approach to capturing the effects of light and atmosphere in his works.

Édouard Manet

Famous artist • 12 minutes read

Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter and a key figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. He is known for his innovative approach, which challenged artistic conventions and depicted scenes from contemporary life with a unique style that left a lasting impact on the art world.

Edgar Degas

Famous artist • 9 minutes read

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French artist and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work showcased his exceptional talent in capturing the essence of modern life, particularly emphasizing subjects like ballet dancers, racehorses, and everyday urban scenes.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Famous artist • 10 minutes read

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is a famous painting created by the French artist Georges Seurat. Completed in 1884, it is considered one of the most iconic examples of the technique known as pointillism.

Georges Seurat

Famous artist • 9 minutes read

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was a French painter and the pioneer of the Neo-Impressionist technique, commonly known as Pointillism or Divisionism. Seurat's most famous work is "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," which is considered a masterpiece of Pointillism.

Monet against all!

Impressionism • 9 minutes read

When people talk to us about Impressionism, generally, we are reminded of the image of the "typical" bearded and somewhat "clochard" French painter, who, intent on painting with his hands smeared with color, sheltering under a parasol or a hat, is ready to capture the changing seasons, lights, shadows and colors, times to manifest themselves on the same subject or multiple...

Pointillism in contemporary artistic language

Pointillisme • 8 minutes read

The peculiarities of pointillism are the fruit of the positivist climate of the late 19th century, which, indelibly marked by the prevailing idea of the triumph of progress, as well as the extreme faith in technique and science, came to charge with rationality even the art world, previously dominated by the "romanticism" of the Impressionists...

How did Impressionism represent spring?

Contemporary artists • 6 minutes read

The landscapes of impressionists wanted to capture the changes of time, such as, for example, those brought by the succession of seasons, in order to maximize the natural and atmospheric peculiarities. Example of what we said can be the painting dedicated to springtime by Claude Monet, Springtime of 1886...

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