Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, Pierre Auguste Renoir

Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, Pierre Auguste Renoir
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening.
Like other works of Renoir's early maturity, Bal du moulin de la Galette is a typically Impressionist snapshot of real life. It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light.
From 1879 to 1894 the painting was in the collection of the French painter Gustave Caillebotte; when he died it became the property of the French Republic as payment for death duties. From 1896 to 1929 the painting hung in the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. From 1929 it hung in the Musée du Louvre until it was transferred to the Musée d'Orsay in 1986.

Breton Landscape, Renoir

Breton Landscape

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Water Lilie 37, Claude Monet

Water Lilie

Monet's Water Lilies paintings are huge lake and water lilies.
Monet painted them so they are suspended in a circle, and it feels like a day that passed or were the four seasons that can be discovered.
At the Musée de l'Orangerie, they are suspended in two oval rooms There are 8. The grounds have been provided by the lily pond in his garden at Giverny, the color compositions culminated in the monumental painted for two rooms in the Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris.

Four Dancers, Edgar Degas

Four Dancers, Edgar Degas 

Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist. A superb draughtsman, he is especially identified with the subject of the dance, and over half his works depict dancers. These display his mastery in the depiction of movement, as do his racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and depiction of human isolation.

Still Life, Paul Cezanne

Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher

Impressionism Painting




Impression-Sunrise, Claude Monet

 Impressionism is an art movement born of the French association of some artists of the mid-nineteenth century. Heavily criticized in its early stages, this trend is particularly evident from 1874 to 1886 by eight public exhibitions in Paris, and marked the breakdown of modern art with the academic. Impressionism is particularly characterized by a tendency to record the fleeting impressions, the mobility of phenomena, rather than stable and conceptual aspect of things, and to refer directly to the canvas. Impressionism was a great influence on the art of this period, painting course, but also the literature and music.