"Impressionism is best known for the work of its French practitioners, the great painters Renoir, Monet, Degas, Manet, Pissarro and Morisot. In all its contexts Impressionism marked a breakthrough for artists, who now responded to light and atmospheric conditions, to landscape and cityscape. The international movement took on numerous forms and palettes, as Australian artists expressed the panoramas of the outback, Swiss artists responded to the snowy...

"Edward Hopper's monster lurks outside the nighthawks' diner. James Whistler's monster rocks in her chair. Monsters invade masterpieces by Dorthea Tanning, Paul Cezanne, M.C. Escher, Jean Michel Basquiat, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Rene Magritte, Henri Rousseau, Franz Kline, Frida Kahlo, Bob Thompson, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Thomas Hart Benton, and Helen Frankenthaler. The monster emerging from Claude Monet's waterlilies is unforgettable. Our guide for...

This volume presents the late 1890s French art movement known as Post-Impressionism. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color. The Post-Impressionists were dissatisfied...

An illustrated study of the life and work of French artist Marc Chagall.

An exploration of painting through 2000 years of art history, focusing on the portrayal of cats by various artists.

Examines the life of this well-known modern painter and the historical and artistic influences on his work.