He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

Throughout the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution brought advancements in manufacturing across Europe, coal-burning ...

(One of his paintings here, “In the Luxembourg Gardens,” 1879, is fitted with a smouldering sun mired in a muck of purple fog that reads as a clear homage to Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise ...

Serres explained: “Monet uses purple in almost all of the London paintings, sometimes dark and sometimes pale. His rendering of light can be best appreciated when you see the pictures side by ...

Claude Monet’s 1903 painting, “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect with Smoke” is part of a new exhibit on climate change opening Feb. 9. 2025 at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

British singer-songwriter Kate Bush has posted her annual Christmas message to her website, in which the artist shares her thoughts on war, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the world ...

Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism, revolutionized 19th-century art with his bold use of pure, vibrant colors and his focus on capturing light and scenes of modern life. Unlike traditional ...

Yet, ironically, Claude Monet’s paintings of the Thames in central London greatly furthered his reputation in France through the exhibition of 37 of them in Paris in 1904.

The Monet exhibition is the idea of Guy Cogeval, director of the Musée d'Orsay, who believes that France has become too blasé about its extraordinary heritage of late 19th-century art.

A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would "irreversibly alter how London saw itself". Some artists help us perceive the world more ...