In this art, typically, black is not used in the artist’s palette. And yet, there is an aspect to Impressionism that is dark, and that darkness is the preoccupation of this book. Prussian troops ...

French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the National Gallery of Victoria, features over a 100 of these ...

Impressionism is universally admired, while academic art is sometimes treated as the ... to suggest multiple realities at once. Monet’s dark-gray squiggle in the Le Havre water might be a ...

The major impressionist artists were a motley bunch ... rendering of ships’ masts and smokestacks, its gashes of dark gray standing in for ripples on the water, and a few smudges of red to ...

After dark, gas lamps were lit ... a necessary reaction against the constraints of a conservative art establishment. “The Impressionist Moment” shows this isn’t the case.

Impressionist artists broke free from traditional techniques ... The use of bold, emotional brushwork and dark colours that popped through defined this age. With him were Paul Cezzane, Georges ...

And Impressionism continues to be a beautiful art medium that mesmerises people ... The background is dark, there is a flicker of light only on his face, and the blurred brushes and palette ...

It was an art critic who first used the term impressionism, and he meant it as ... the spring after the long dark winter. It's a site that has suffered, that has gone through its own trauma.

In recent years, abstract and impressionist art has continued to grow and change ... In his work, the balance between light and dark, fire and water, symbolically reflects the human journey ...