Dose of Art #149: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876)
Almost 35 years before yesterdays self-portrait, Renoir painted Bal du Moulin de la Galette. It depicts a typical Sunday at […]
Impressionism
Dose of Art #137: Edouard Manet – Devant la Glace / Before the Mirror (c. 1876)
The scandal of painting prostitutes had worn off by the time Manet made this painting. He had already painted two […]
Dose of Art #133: Camille Pissarro – A View of L’Hermitage, near Pontoise (1874)
Pissarro lived in Pontoise between 1866 and 1883. During this period he painted a number of paintings of the village […]
Dose of Art #102: Claude Monet – Woman with a Parasol / Madame Monet and Her Son (1875)
What better way to start the week after this cold and snowy weekend than with this sunny painting by Monet? […]
Dose of Art #78: Claude Monet – Impression, Sunrise (1872)
The title of this painting gave the name to the Impressionist art movement, and they have a critic, Louis Leroy, […]