The Painter Vilhelm Kyhn Smoking his Pipe

In an ill-lit tavern a group of peasants are smoking and drinking. Seated at a table in the foreground a man holding a pipe and with his ruff untied takes the hand of a serving wom...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...

First Manet then the Impressionists followed the road paved by Courbet in representing reality in painting and went even further by initiating new research based on the perception ...

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...