The Impressionists were “terribly popular, terribly familiar and terribly commercialized”. They became popular because people from all walks of life, all creeds and all backgrounds were able to plug into it their art movement and its message about life. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was the people painter of the bourgeoisie…
Elizabeth Murray was in New York for the launch of the exhibition Monet’s Garden at The New York Botanical Gardens where her photographs are part of the show
Claude Monet captured and conveyed the illusionary mesmerizing momentary quality of his first and lasting impressions observed in his glorious garden at Giverny
French Impressionist painters, like Claude Monet, paused in the countryside to capture the light of the sky in Normandy, where the intense colour of red poppies flowering in its fallow fields remind us of war and peace. They recorded the haze leaching off lovely lavender fields in the heat of…
