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The blockbuster movement’s sesquicentennial arrived without fanfare at US museums, signs of a changing attitude.

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Impressionism is perhaps the most-viewed and best-loved movement in art history. A new exhibition, first shown in Paris, ...

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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism; by Sebastian Smee; W.W. Norton; 370 pp. $35.00 “The solid earth seems turned to smoke, and to be going away from under our feet ...

(1889) 184 years ago today, Claude Monet, one of the founding painters of French Impressionism, was born in Paris. He became the driving force of the movement with his broken dashes of color and ...

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For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too sappy; just right. Renaissance art may baffle with arcane religious symbolism ...