Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, 1268-AB087. Photo: Bridgeman Images Portraiture was central to Manet’s self-conception as a ... one critic remarked, “The famous head of the Impressionist school here shows ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press ... with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Paul Cezanne is often called the ‘father of modern art’. He was the artist who bridged the gap between Impressionism and ... One of Cezanne's most famous and haunting works is ‘Pyramid ...

Perhaps her most famous painting is The Cradle ... Morisot’s style, gentle and unemphatic, is unmistakably Impressionist; Manet, on the other hand, can’t be easily pigeonholed.

Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter best known as a leader of the Impressionist ... Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. He died on February 8, 1935 in Berlin ...

Monet and such colleagues as Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, and Berthe Morisot had been accepted ... Anonyme works on display here are among the most famous Impressionist paintings.

His friends — Manet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro — visited frequently, often copying Monet’s work. The artists exhibited their paintings in 1874 and were dubbed the Impressionists. Tickets are sold at ...

providing the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes and examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters ...