Renoir's couples and the Impressionists in love: nine paintings
A dance in the city, a theatre box, a letter read together in the garden. How Renoir, Sargent, Boldini and Zorn painted modern love.
Impressionism
Gardens, dancers and moments of changing light. Explore Monet, Renoir and the painters whose brushwork brought a new way of seeing into art.
5 Monet paintings to change the light in a room
Riviera blues, poppy fields and winter lilac. Five ways into Claude Monet’s world, with a whole artwork to explore at every stop.
Tissot's July: how to look at a summer portrait from 1878
A white dress, yellow ribbons and the sea behind a striped awning: a close reading of James Tissot's Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait).
Garden paintings: 16 gardens from Monet to Larsson
Monet at Antibes, Caillebotte’s chrysanthemums, Van Gogh’s poet’s garden, Carl Larsson’s birch-tree breakfast and gardens from Persia, China and Japan: sixteen gardens to hang at home.
Van Gogh paintings: 8 you can hang at home
Irises, Roses, Oleanders, L’Arlésienne and four more: eight works by Vincent van Gogh from the Met and the Art Institute of Chicago, with the story behind each one and where it looks best.
Impressionist paintings: 20 works full of light
Monet’s poppies, Renoir’s riverside lunch, Morisot’s dining room and Pissarro’s village: twenty impressionist works, what makes each one sing, and how to bring them home.
Lake Serene: Your Portrait as a Lakeside Masterpiece
A mother-and-child river scene in luminous impressionist oil, composed from a single photo of you.