reporting from WASHINGTON — In the late 19th century, everyone looked on Gustave Caillebotte as a leading painter of the Impressionists. He took part in five of the eight exhibitions that the ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...
Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, looks back 150 years to its founding moment and to the darkness hidden behind ...
The past is beautiful, and the future is splendid. Even sad memories often fade into beautiful afterimages over time. That is ...
JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...
– Now that it has opened, it is easy to see why the initial unveiling of “Impressionism” was postponed. Despite a solid cast headed by Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen and Marsha Mason, this new American play ...