#impressionism

By Edgar Degas (1834–1917), The Dance Lesson, ca. 1879, pastel and black chalk on three pieces of wove paper, joined together, 25 3/8 x 22 1/8 inches (64.5 x 56.2 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #arthistory #impressionism #pastel #drawing From the museum: “Degas made various adjustments to this composition, presumably to accommodate the violinist in his final design. He added strips of paper at the top and to the right, and there is evidence to suggest that he may have altered the dancer's pose. A pastel study for the musician is in the Museum's collection (19.51.1). The present work was formerly owned by Gustave Caillebotte, who probably bought it from or soon after the Impressionist exhibition of 1879. In 1894 he bequeathed it to Renoir, who sold it shortly thereafter.”

Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), 1889 In museum: Cleveland Museum of Art Location: Cleveland, United States of America Size: 124.5 × 104.5 cm #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury

Did a outdoorsy portrait the other day, I am pleased with some of the colors, trying to evoke the light summer feeling of impressionist portraits. The sitter liked it too. #portrait #portraitpainting #painting #oilpainting #impressionism #allaprima #art #kunst #MastoArt #fediart

"Lady with a Bowl of Violets," Lilla Cabot Perry, c. 1910. Lydia Cabot (1848-1933) was born into a Boston society family, and in her youth spent time with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, both family friends. Her family were passionate abolitionists during the Civil War and worked to protect runaway slaves. After the war, she married linguist and academic Thomas Sergeant Perry, and then began her artistic training at the age of 36. She became a protegee of Claude Monet and friend of Camille Pissarro, and established herself as an American Impressionist. Although she never had the fame other Impressionists had, she formulated her own version of it and helped stir up the staid Boston art community. Several years' residence in Japan, when her husband was teaching at a university there, also influenced her. She started going by her nickname, Lilla. Here we have an unknown young woman, sitting serenely in a rich setting. We have part of a Japanese print and the bowl of violets present but carefully cropped off, a very Japanese choice. It's a lovely, serene picture, typical of her work. From the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. #Art #LillaCabotPerry #Impressionism #WomenArtists #WomenInArt #Herstory #AmericanArt

Il y a quelque temps j'ai repris le couteau pour peindre et c'était magique. Je suis de plus en plus à l'aise avec cette technique et le rendu incroyable . Dites-moi à quoi vous fait penser ce lieu ? #MastoArt #PeintureAcrylique #Dreamers #FantasyArt #Impressionism