#impressionists — Public Fediverse posts

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #today - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #today - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #today - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #today - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #today - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #tomorrow - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #tomorrow - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #tomorrow - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #tomorrow - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

Colours of Time by Cedric #Klapisch is showing at the Phoenix Picturehouse #Oxford from #tomorrow - see my review here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/colours-of-time.html

#film #frenchCinema #impressionists #Paris 19thCentury #periodDrama

It's no secret that I love goats! I came across this painting of goats (hubby is thinking about doing a needlepoint painting of this). Painting: "Seated peasant woman with goats" by #CamillePissarro (1885).

"Painted in the rural hamlet of Eragny, just northwest of Paris, where Pissarro settled from 1884 until his death in 1903, this large and highly finished gouache revisits a subject that the artist had explored in a smaller oil study the previous year (private collection). Like fellow Impressionists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, Pissarro eschewed conventional dictates, freely alternating between canvas and paper, and exploring the potential of various media, often in novel combination. Pissarro increasingly (and often desperately) gravitated to paper at this juncture in time as a way to make progress in his art and to make ends meet."

#FirstFridayArtWalk #Artists #Impressionists

It's no secret that I love goats! I came across this painting of goats (hubby is thinking about doing a needlepoint painting of this). Painting: "Seated peasant woman with goats" by #CamillePissarro (1885).

"Painted in the rural hamlet of Eragny, just northwest of Paris, where Pissarro settled from 1884 until his death in 1903, this large and highly finished gouache revisits a subject that the artist had explored in a smaller oil study the previous year (private collection). Like fellow Impressionists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, Pissarro eschewed conventional dictates, freely alternating between canvas and paper, and exploring the potential of various media, often in novel combination. Pissarro increasingly (and often desperately) gravitated to paper at this juncture in time as a way to make progress in his art and to make ends meet."

#FirstFridayArtWalk #Artists #Impressionists

It's no secret that I love goats! I came across this painting of goats (hubby is thinking about doing a needlepoint painting of this). Painting: "Seated peasant woman with goats" by #CamillePissarro (1885).

"Painted in the rural hamlet of Eragny, just northwest of Paris, where Pissarro settled from 1884 until his death in 1903, this large and highly finished gouache revisits a subject that the artist had explored in a smaller oil study the previous year (private collection). Like fellow Impressionists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, Pissarro eschewed conventional dictates, freely alternating between canvas and paper, and exploring the potential of various media, often in novel combination. Pissarro increasingly (and often desperately) gravitated to paper at this juncture in time as a way to make progress in his art and to make ends meet."

#FirstFridayArtWalk #Artists #Impressionists

It's no secret that I love goats! I came across this painting of goats (hubby is thinking about doing a needlepoint painting of this). Painting: "Seated peasant woman with goats" by #CamillePissarro (1885).

"Painted in the rural hamlet of Eragny, just northwest of Paris, where Pissarro settled from 1884 until his death in 1903, this large and highly finished gouache revisits a subject that the artist had explored in a smaller oil study the previous year (private collection). Like fellow Impressionists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, Pissarro eschewed conventional dictates, freely alternating between canvas and paper, and exploring the potential of various media, often in novel combination. Pissarro increasingly (and often desperately) gravitated to paper at this juncture in time as a way to make progress in his art and to make ends meet."

#FirstFridayArtWalk #Artists #Impressionists

It's no secret that I love goats! I came across this painting of goats (hubby is thinking about doing a needlepoint painting of this). Painting: "Seated peasant woman with goats" by #CamillePissarro (1885).

"Painted in the rural hamlet of Eragny, just northwest of Paris, where Pissarro settled from 1884 until his death in 1903, this large and highly finished gouache revisits a subject that the artist had explored in a smaller oil study the previous year (private collection). Like fellow Impressionists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, Pissarro eschewed conventional dictates, freely alternating between canvas and paper, and exploring the potential of various media, often in novel combination. Pissarro increasingly (and often desperately) gravitated to paper at this juncture in time as a way to make progress in his art and to make ends meet."

#FirstFridayArtWalk #Artists #Impressionists

“Early modern society created – and we have inherited – that paradoxical thing: a tradition of radical innovation”*…

A University of Chicago economist with a specialty in the economics of creativity, David Galenson, with an argument that the Impressionists contributed more than their works to the story of art…

Since the 1960s the art world has become accustomed to the arrival of startling new works by contemporary artists, from Yves Klein’s anthropometries created by nude models covered with blue paint, Piero Manzoni’s canned feces, and Andy Warhol’s silkscreened portraits, through Andres Serrano’s crucifix in urine, Damien Hirst’s sectioned animals in formaldehyde, and Tracey Emin’s soiled bed, to Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana. Yet few art experts understand that these radical works are only the most recent consequences of a fundamental change in the structure of art markets that occurred more than a century ago. And the artists who initiated this change are today so venerated that few people realize how radical they were in their own time…

Art historians have long recognized that a radical change occurred in the appearance of fine art during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries, but they have failed to explain why this happened when it did. The answer lies in a change in the structure of the market for art, initiated by Claude Monet and a small group of his friends. The Impressionist group exhibitions of 1874–86 effectively ended the official Salon’s monopoly of the ability to certify artists as qualified professionals, and began a new regime in which small independent group exhibitions competed for attention. The result was a new era of artistic freedom, as painters no longer had to satisfy the conservative Salon jury, and new styles challenged for leadership of the art world. The heightened demand for originality favored conceptual artists, who could innovate conspicuously and decisively. So ironically, Monet and his fellow experimental Impressionists came under attack from the supporters of Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, and other young conceptual artists. The growing independence of private galleries, which further contributed to fostering competition, would allow Matisse, Picasso, and their peers to consolidate this revolution early in the next century. And the products of this perpetual revolution have included such later works as Warhol’s silkscreened portraits, Hirst’s sectioned animals, and Cattelan’s duct-taped banana. Art historians have described the transformation of modern art in great detail, but have failed to recognize the causal role of economic forces, as the shift from monopsony to a competitive market gave artists a new freedom to innovate, and made the modern era a time of continuing radical innovation…

Fascinating: “Marketing modern art: how the impressionists started a perpetual revolution,” from @jcultecon.bsky.social.

Bay Area readers can peek at the process in motion at The MFA’s Legion of Honor in the “Manet & Morisot” exhibition, up through March 1.

* Kirk Varnedoe

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As we divvy up the difference, we might send avant-garde birthday greetings to a beneficiary of this emergent cultural mechanism, Francis Picabia; he was born on this date in 1879. A French avant-garde painter, poet, and typographist, Picabia experimented with Impressionism and Pointillism before becoming a Cubist.  He then became one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France, and was later briefly associated with Surrealism.

See his work at the record of a major retrospective hung at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2017 on their web site.

“Early modern society created – and we have inherited – that paradoxical thing: a tradition of radical innovation”*…

A University of Chicago economist with a specialty in the economics of creativity, David Galenson, with an argument that the Impressionists contributed more than their works to the story of art…

Since the 1960s the art world has become accustomed to the arrival of startling new works by contemporary artists, from Yves Klein’s anthropometries created by nude models covered with blue paint, Piero Manzoni’s canned feces, and Andy Warhol’s silkscreened portraits, through Andres Serrano’s crucifix in urine, Damien Hirst’s sectioned animals in formaldehyde, and Tracey Emin’s soiled bed, to Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana. Yet few art experts understand that these radical works are only the most recent consequences of a fundamental change in the structure of art markets that occurred more than a century ago. And the artists who initiated this change are today so venerated that few people realize how radical they were in their own time…

Art historians have long recognized that a radical change occurred in the appearance of fine art during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries, but they have failed to explain why this happened when it did. The answer lies in a change in the structure of the market for art, initiated by Claude Monet and a small group of his friends. The Impressionist group exhibitions of 1874–86 effectively ended the official Salon’s monopoly of the ability to certify artists as qualified professionals, and began a new regime in which small independent group exhibitions competed for attention. The result was a new era of artistic freedom, as painters no longer had to satisfy the conservative Salon jury, and new styles challenged for leadership of the art world. The heightened demand for originality favored conceptual artists, who could innovate conspicuously and decisively. So ironically, Monet and his fellow experimental Impressionists came under attack from the supporters of Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, and other young conceptual artists. The growing independence of private galleries, which further contributed to fostering competition, would allow Matisse, Picasso, and their peers to consolidate this revolution early in the next century. And the products of this perpetual revolution have included such later works as Warhol’s silkscreened portraits, Hirst’s sectioned animals, and Cattelan’s duct-taped banana. Art historians have described the transformation of modern art in great detail, but have failed to recognize the causal role of economic forces, as the shift from monopsony to a competitive market gave artists a new freedom to innovate, and made the modern era a time of continuing radical innovation…

Fascinating: “Marketing modern art: how the impressionists started a perpetual revolution,” from @jcultecon.bsky.social.

Bay Area readers can peek at the process in motion at The MFA’s Legion of Honor in the “Manet & Morisot” exhibition, up through March 1.

* Kirk Varnedoe

###

As we divvy up the difference, we might send avant-garde birthday greetings to a beneficiary of this emergent cultural mechanism, Francis Picabia; he was born on this date in 1879. A French avant-garde painter, poet, and typographist, Picabia experimented with Impressionism and Pointillism before becoming a Cubist.  He then became one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France, and was later briefly associated with Surrealism.

See his work at the record of a major retrospective hung at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2017 on their web site.

#3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings

1. Great collection of impressionist paintings at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
2. A lovely brunch at La Ferneteria cafe
3. Self-hosted PeerTube installed and working (achievement unlocked!)

#Argentina #BuenosAires #Impressionists #Painting #FineArt #SelfHosting #PeerTube

'Winter Night in the Mountains' by Harald Sohlberg (1901) ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

#art #arts #artists #artist #nature #winter #snow #artist #artists #impressionist #impressionism #impressionists #arthistory #painting #paintings #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #artgalleries #museum #museums #artmuseum #artmuseums

Another great clip of Trump & Musk from this weeks #DeadRingers on #BBCRadio4 😂🤣

Full show: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024x4y

#Satire #Impressionists

Recommended listening for anyone that needs some light comedy in this testing time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024p3g

#BBCR4 #DeadRingers #Politics #Satire #Impressionists

The 19th-century invention that revolutionised the way artists like Van Gogh painted 🎨

Join National Gallery Principal Scientist, Catherine Higgitt, to discover the secrets of how Van Gogh used chrome yellow pigment in his 'Sunflowers' and see the chemistry of how this colour is made.

Watch the full film: https://bit.ly/3zTtn2b

National Gallery @NationalGallery

#art #paint #impressionists #painting

July 10 - the birthday of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) - a Danish-French painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands). Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all 8 Paris #Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the #Impressionists" but to all 4 of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/2-the-boulevard-montmartre-on-a-winter-morning-1897-camille-pissarro.html

#art #arthistory #ArtistBirthday #impressionism #Paris #history

'La Toilette' by Louise Breslau (1898) #art #artwork #artist #artists #impressionists #impressionism #realism #artnet #artgallery #artgalleries #artmuseum #museum #artmuseums #museums #painting #paintings #illustration #arthistory #style #fashion #beauty #artist #artists

Here is a set of three paintings that were made for a home in Thailand a few years back ~ #art #arts #artists #artist #artnet #supportthearts #supportlivingartists #handmade #painting #paintings #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #artwork #artistsonmastodon #oilpainting #oilpaintings #impressionism #impressionists #impressionist #artgallery #artgalleries #commissions #commissionsopen #commissionsavailable #commissionswanted

Here is a set of three paintings that were made for a home in Thailand a few years back ~ #art #arts #artists #artist #artnet #supportthearts #supportlivingartists #handmade #painting #paintings #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #artwork #artistsonmastodon #oilpainting #oilpaintings #impressionism #impressionists #impressionist #artgallery #artgalleries #commissions #commissionsopen #commissionsavailable #commissionswanted

Here is a set of three paintings that were made for a home in Thailand a few years back ~ #art #arts #artists #artist #artnet #supportthearts #supportlivingartists #handmade #painting #paintings #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #artwork #artistsonmastodon #oilpainting #oilpaintings #impressionism #impressionists #impressionist #artgallery #artgalleries #commissions #commissionsopen #commissionsavailable #commissionswanted

Here is a set of three paintings that were made for a home in Thailand a few years back ~ #art #arts #artists #artist #artnet #supportthearts #supportlivingartists #handmade #painting #paintings #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #artwork #artistsonmastodon #oilpainting #oilpaintings #impressionism #impressionists #impressionist #artgallery #artgalleries #commissions #commissionsopen #commissionsavailable #commissionswanted

Here is a set of three paintings that were made for a home in Thailand a few years back ~ #art #arts #artists #artist #artnet #supportthearts #supportlivingartists #handmade #painting #paintings #nature #naturelover #naturelovers #artwork #artistsonmastodon #oilpainting #oilpaintings #impressionism #impressionists #impressionist #artgallery #artgalleries #commissions #commissionsopen #commissionsavailable #commissionswanted

'Simone in a Blue Bonnet (Version No. 1)' by Mary Cassatt (1903) #art #arts #painting #arthistory #portrait #portraits #impressionist #impressionism #impressionists #artlover #artlovers #museum #musems #artmuseum #artmuseums #artnet #illustration #design #fashion #style

'Young Woman Among the Flowers' by Édouard Manet (1879) #art #arts #arthistory #painting #paintings #flowers #flora #artnet #illustration #museum #museums #artmuseum #artmuseums #museum #museums #artwork #impressionism #impressionist #impressionists #artgallery #artgalleries #inspiration #fashion #style #design #designer #designers #designing #artnet

August 19 - the birthday of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) - a French painter who was a member and patron of the #Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/2-paris-street-rainy-day-1877-gustave-caillebotte.html

#art #ArtHistory #France #French #ArtistBirthday #paris #vintage

'The Alhambra in Granada' by Louis Comfort Tiffany (b.1848-d.1933) #art #artists #arthistory #artist #artlover #artlovers #painting #paintings #artnet #inspiration #motivation #impressionism #impressionist #impressionists

"Landscape with Cows," Helen McNicoll, 1907.

A Canadian Impressionist, McNicoll helped popularize Impressionism in Canada and became one of the most prominent Canadian artists of the early 20th century. Sadly, she died young, 35 y/o, of diabetes, only 8 years after this was completed.

But what a perfect summer scene!

From the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

#art #WomenArtists #CanadianArt #Impressionists #SummerArt

July 10 - the birthday of Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) - a Danish-French painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands). Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all 8 Paris #Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the #Impressionists" but to all 4 of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/1-boulevard-montmartre-in-paris-1897-camille-pissarro.html

#arthistory #ArtistBirthday #impressionism

"The Fourth of July, 1916," Frederick Childe Hassam, 1916.

A vibrant scene of a celebration of Independence Day on New York's Fifth Avenue, in the midst of WWI, when some Americans were worried about foreign invasion. This scene is especially flag-ridden as the artist was a supporter of the Preparedness Movement, with advocated for stronger national defense.

From the New York Historical Society, New York.

#Art #Hassam #Impressionists #HappyFourthOfJuly

"The Fourth of July, 1916," Frederick Childe Hassam, 1916.

A vibrant scene of a celebration of Independence Day on New York's Fifth Avenue, in the midst of WWI, when some Americans were worried about foreign invasion. This scene is especially flag-ridden as the artist was a supporter of the Preparedness Movement, with advocated for stronger national defense.

From the New York Historical Society, New York.

#Art #Hassam #Impressionists #HappyFourthOfJuly

"The Fourth of July, 1916," Frederick Childe Hassam, 1916.

A vibrant scene of a celebration of Independence Day on New York's Fifth Avenue, in the midst of WWI, when some Americans were worried about foreign invasion. This scene is especially flag-ridden as the artist was a supporter of the Preparedness Movement, with advocated for stronger national defense.

From the New York Historical Society, New York.

#Art #Hassam #Impressionists #HappyFourthOfJuly

"The Fourth of July, 1916," Frederick Childe Hassam, 1916.

A vibrant scene of a celebration of Independence Day on New York's Fifth Avenue, in the midst of WWI, when some Americans were worried about foreign invasion. This scene is especially flag-ridden as the artist was a supporter of the Preparedness Movement, with advocated for stronger national defense.

From the New York Historical Society, New York.

#Art #Hassam #Impressionists #HappyFourthOfJuly

"The Fourth of July, 1916," Frederick Childe Hassam, 1916.

A vibrant scene of a celebration of Independence Day on New York's Fifth Avenue, in the midst of WWI, when some Americans were worried about foreign invasion. This scene is especially flag-ridden as the artist was a supporter of the Preparedness Movement, with advocated for stronger national defense.

From the New York Historical Society, New York.

#Art #Hassam #Impressionists #HappyFourthOfJuly

"Bordighera," Claude Monet, 1884.

Monet visited the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, for what was intended to be a few weeks but stretched into a few months as he was inspired by the Mediterranean light. Such a lovely summer image...

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

#art #Impressionists #Italy #Landscape

"Giverny, Poplars of Ajoux," Blanche Hoschedé Monet, c. 1896.

Monet's stepdaughter, AND daughter-in-law (quite a tale, look it up) was a purer Impressionist than he was. He taught and encouraged her, so the influence of his style is evident, but it has its own little ways of being unique.

From a private collection.

#art #WomenArtists #Impressionists #Monet #ItsComplicated

Like a bunch of brilliant painters were just hanging out in Paris cafes in the late 19th century. Maybe that's not coincidence or synergy. Maybe talent is omnipresent and we just don't recognize it most of the time.

#sundaythoughts #beatles #impressionists #talent

"Camille Monet on a Garden Bench," Claude Monet, 1873.

Monet's enigmatic portrait of his wife has many explanations, but probably the best is that she is reacting to her father's death, and the man (a neighbor of theirs) is offering condolences. Her sad visage is quite a contrast to the bright garden.

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

#Art #Impressionists #WomenInArt

"Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook," Camille Pissaro, 1894-5.

Summer will be here before you know it, and we'll all want to dip our feet in a cool brook! I once survived a brutally hot picnic one summer by simply sitting with my feet in a stream until it was time to eat...

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

#art #Impressionists #Summer

About Leon Monet, Claude Monet's older brother and early patron of the #impressionists

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/07/the-other-monet-impressionists-brother-is-star-of-new-exhibition

"The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset," Claude Monet, 1882-3

Another real landscape, this time a natural rock formation on the Normandy cost. Called "The Elephant and the Needle," (or is it a Mastodon?), it's a popular sight. It was also the setting of a thriller by Maurice LeBlanc, "The Hollow Needle," starring gentleman-burglar Arsene Lupin.

From the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.

#art #Monet #Impressionists #cliffs #seacoast #sunset

"Parisian Boulevard," Ramon Pichot i Gironès, 1898/1901. The darkness gathers as various figures walk along a tree-lined street illuminated by lanterns. A Catalan Impressionist, Pichot was an early mentor to Salvador Dali and a friend to Picasso and Gertrude Stein. This hangs in the Museu del Cau Ferrat in Sitges, Spain. #art #Impressionists #CatalanArt #SpanishArt