Tag: Claude Monet

  • Anna Ancher: Painting Light

    Whether depicting women at work, children playing on the beach or locals at prayer Anna Ancher’s light-filled paintings are a joyful celebration of life on Denmark’s Skaw peninsula

  • Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

    Glittering, shimmering, dazzling: Thomas’s eye-catching works have more to them than meets the eye, speaking of Otherness and institutional racism, but also offering a complex and empowering vision of Black womanhood

  • Monet and London: Views of the Thames

    Industrial pollution is imbued with celestial light in Monet’s extraordinarily atmospheric paintings of the Thames. This is an exhibition not to be missed

  • Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism

    This glorious show recreates much of the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 alongside works from the traditional Salon that same year. And it does so both through the original artworks and via a state-of-the-art virtual walk through the impressionists’ world…

  • Fruits of the Spirit: Art from the Heart

    A virtual exhibition that leaves one visitor feeling more like a student on completing an essay than a gallery-goer having had a visceral encounter with 18 fabulous works of art

  • Gauguin and the Impressionists

    Do we need yet another impressionist exhibition? This Royal Academy showcase of Denmark’s Ordrupgaard collection proves that there is life still in the old dog

  • Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

    This exhibition of Kelly’s work seeks to cut to the core of his practice, primarily through two sets of extraordinary lithographs from the mid-1960s, and traces a compelling link between his figurative and abstract work

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)

    This exhibition lacks coherence and has little to say about the influence British artists had on the French impressionists, but is redeemed by paintings of the Thames, the highlight of which are eight works by Claude Monet

  • Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape

    A trail-blazing artist, largely lost from sight, is brought back into the limelight in this excellent exhibition, full of sunsets, poppies and crashing waves