The Musée d’Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate change – works that collectively tell the story of human enterprise at the ...

The recognition comes close on the heels of a Barnes exhibit that marked a homecoming for Thomas who Alicia Keys calls "bold, ...

(Image: Gustave Courbet/Website) Artemisia Gentileschi’s ‘Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting’ is not just a self-portrait but also evidence to her exceptional skills as an artist.

Environmental art project immerses Avignon audiences ... The town of Ornans, whose museum is borrowing "The Trout" by the painter Gustave Courbet, who was from the town in the eastern region ...

Surrealism and Pop Art remain some of the most popular and loved art movements of the 20th century, well-known even by those who are not deeply interested in the history of art. The aestheticized ...

Over spring break, I had the opportunity to visit an array of art museums throughout the Washington D.C. area. One of my more ...

The radicals had been attacking official French culture for a generation, ever since poet Charles Baudelaire urged painters to depict modern life and painter Gustave Courbet declared that “art ...

Our list of 10 contemporary art controversies provides examples of each, as it examines the efficacy of boundary-pushing in the 21st century. Read more about "Art in the 21st Century" here. More from ...

Art Institute of Chicago "People think a sugar ... of Impressionist still life from its beginnings in the realism of Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour and Manet through its transformation ...

you will decrease your stress level and be more effective in your job. Painting by Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man, 1843–45. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), Paysage du Jura, c 1875, mounted oil on canvas, signed, 65 x 81 cm/25.59 x 31.89 in (detail).Estimate: €70,000/120,000 Eight paintings in one sale. A small but emblematic ...