A new study posits that rising smog levels in 19th-century London and Paris likely played a role in blurring the lines of realism.
Claude Monet
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Climate Activists Give Monet’s “Grainstacks” a Mashed Potato Facial
Germany’s Barberini Museum is the latest institution hit by the burgeoning food-on-masterpieces trend of climate activism.
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Monet Was Such an Influencer
Pretty much all of the Impressionists fit the Insta mold. They mastered capturing the individual elements that could inspire envy and endless imitation.
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The Realized Fantasy of Visiting an Empty Museum
I had previously wished to have the tourists and school groups disappear, but as Berlin museums reopen, it feels reassuring to see famous artworks still up, but also eerie to see them without a large audience.
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Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.
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The Curious Case of a Missing Monet
Lawrence Denham thought he struck gold when he found the French impressionist’s painting on sale for $1,000; instead, he may have unwittingly revealed a scheme of online art fraud totaling more than $400,000.
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Rent One of Claude Monet’s French Homes on Airbnb
A three-bedroom and three-bathroom home once owned by Impressionist painter is available for $226 per night.
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Giant Monet Painting Discovered in Louvre Storage and Returned to Japan
Missing for almost 60 years, the painting was found severely damaged in a Louvre storage facility.
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Art Historian Finds Missing Monet Painting Through a Google Search
Believed to have been missing since 1895, Monet’s painting “Effet de Brouillard” (1872) will soon go on view.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a punk rocker righted the gender imbalance in an exhibition on the genre’s history, two Monets were seized from a Malaysian businessman accused of fraud, and a court ordered artist Orlan to pay Lady Gaga $22,000.
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How Modern Gardens and Painting Developed in Tandem
LONDON — In 2015 the Royal Academy of Arts faced a critical backlash against its last major painting blockbuster, Rubens and His Legacy, which featured very little Rubens and an awful lot of tenuous filler. Thank goodness, then, that the museum is back on track with its new survey, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse.
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Hanging 19th-Century Japanese and Western Masters Side by Side
SAN FRANCISCO — Claude Monet owned more than 200 Japanese prints and once told a critic, “If you insist on forcing me into an affiliation with anyone else … then compare me with the old Japanese masters; their exquisite taste has always delighted me.”
