It isn’t easy to believe that Impressionist art, now ubiquitous, was ever considered revolutionary. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies,” for example, is now ...

Even if you have no idea about art, you’ve probably seen the bright, colorful works of the world’s most famous impressionist artists. It’s not by accident that the French Orsay Museum is one of the ...

The Seine at Bougival is one of Monet’s paintings on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. (Currier Museum of Art) In 1874, an offbeat, rebellious group of artists mounted an exhibition in the ...

The impressionists of the early 19th century had a special ability to capture nuance in everyday scenes—bright afternoons, a moment at a café, and luminous sunsets. A new exhibition at the Denver Art ...

As a teenager, Christian Dior helped his mother design the garden at their home in Normandy, France. He carried his love of flowers — also the... Exhibit Explores How Dior's Designs Echo Impressionist ...

Monet’s ‘Woman with a Parasol’ is a painting of Camille Monet (Claude’s wife) and their son Jean. It is a beautiful painting that looks like a photograph captured on a camera. It is a fleeting moment ...

A glorious new New York Botanical Garden exhibit showcases the gardens and flowers seen in works by American impressionist painters, like John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam. Besides the truly ...

Art and floral arranging are one in the same — at least in Allison Clock’s life. Foremost a painter and then a photographer, she eventually started to see flowers as an equally important form of art. ...

When it was time to create a new collection, Christian Dior had a ritual: He went to his garden and sat down among the flowers. Fashion historian Florence Muller gathered drawings, photographs and ...