For Impressionism’s 150th anniversary, ... Not only the art of pastel colors and gauzy forms, Impressionism was a fresh take on realism and an embrace of the spontaneity of life.

Today we use the term impressionist to generally describe the aesthetic of short, rapidly applied paint strokes in bright pastel hues. Impressionism as it emerged in the 1870s, however, wasn’t a ...

On the eve of World War II, Nazis in Austria seized a pastel by renowned impressionist artist Claude Monet, selling it off and sparking a family's decadeslong search that culminated Wednesday in ...

Smoggy air during the Industrial Revolution contributed to the creation of impressionism, inspiring painters such as J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet to develop new painting styles, according to a ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...