What’s the Difference between Manet and Monet?
The two artists have been confused for over 100 years. We help you tell them apart.
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Impressionism
PODCAST: Memories of Degas
Exploring two biographies of Degas written by authors who knew him well.
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Rodin Joins the Impressionists
Rodin’s Christ and Mary Magdalene has a new home at the Getty.
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Édouard Manet’s Spring Joins the Getty Museum Galleries
For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.
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The Radical Artistic Vision of Manet’s Jeanne (Spring)
This beautiful painting contains the germ of modern art as we know it.
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The Human Predicament, in Pastel
An enigmatic pastel shows Degas’s talent for drawing human psychology.
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Beyond the First Impression: Rediscovering Monet in Paris
Though his name has become synonymous with the 19th century’s canonical movement of Impressionism, and though his masterpieces hang proudly in the halls of... Read More