Few schools of painting explored the pictorial qualities of flowers as fashionably as impressionism. From the poppies and waterlilies in Monet’s work to the irises in van Gogh’s, flowers are one of ...

The Seine at Bougival is one of Monet’s paintings on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. (Currier Museum of Art) In 1874, an offbeat, rebellious group of artists mounted an exhibition in the ...

47 x 59 in. (119.4 x 149.9 cm.) “Hanoi in Purple Flowers” is a large framed Impressionist oil on canvas landscape painting created by Vietnamese artist Le Thanh Son in 2021. Featuring a soft palette ...

A banner reading "Don't walk on lentil" is seen at the fields of flowers during the annual blossom in Castelluccio di Norcia, near Perugia, Italy, July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi (Reuters) ...

While French Impressionism is often the most talked-about art movement, American artists in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries carved out their own distinct voice with it and created American ...

SAN ANTONIO — “Who can resist a painting of a big slab of butter?” Mary Morton asked a group of art patrons and media members as they previewed “Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art ...

The impressionists of the early 19th century had a special ability to capture nuance in everyday scenes—bright afternoons, a moment at a café, and luminous sunsets. A new exhibition at the Denver Art ...

On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

Neither endlessly reprinted on mugs and t-shirts nor massively framed in living rooms: these ten Impressionist paintings are a far cry from the world-famous masterpieces you already know about. And ...

Art and floral arranging are one in the same — at least in Allison Clock’s life. Foremost a painter and then a photographer, she eventually started to see flowers as an equally important form of art. ...

CASTELLUCCIO, Italy (Reuters) - The view across the Castelluccio plain in central Italy could be mistaken for a painting by Claude Monet: a blur of colour created by countless wild flowers growing ...