Odd advice from Monet? "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you."
Dr. Charles Cramer
Though they depicted outdoor light, the Impressionists were also interested in depicting middle-class leisure.
Impressionism: painting modern life
Blue snow and violet-tinted flesh—the Impressionists radically changed our expectation of color.
Impressionist color
The surprising pictorial effects of modern art may seem at first like errors, but they are quite intentional!
Impressionist pictorial space
Impressionist paintings—once considered sloppy and unfinished—draw huge crowds to museums today.