Impressionism
A movement that developed in France, it rejected academic teaching and focused on capturing the effects of outdoor light, leisure, and urban life.
Impressionism
A movement that developed in France, it rejected academic teaching and focused on capturing the effects of outdoor light, leisure, and urban life.
Basics to get you started
Impressionism, an introduction
How the Impressionists got their name
Looking east: how Japan inspired Monet, Van Gogh and other Western artists
What does “Impressionism” mean?
Impressionist pictorial space
Impressionist color
Impressionism as optical realism: Monet
Impressionism: painting modern life
Japonisme
Modern art and reality
Becoming modern in 19th-century Europe, an introduction
The painting of Paul Cézanne, an introduction
Landscape painting in 19th-century Latin America
Latin American artistic pilgrimages to Paris
Works of Art
Artists
Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81, oil on canvas, 130.2 x 175.6 cm (Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
