The Impressionists moved the easels out of the studios and to the ... One of the founders of Impressionism, Edgar Degas particularly enjoyed the subject of dance. Several of his paintings ...

Famously, of course, Impressionism was not greeted with love ... Sunrise (1872), Claude Monet (© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris / Studio Christian Baraja SLB) For 200 years, the Académie had ...

Monet painted this from the very gallery where the First Impressionist show took place, the studio of photographer ... as silken arabesques — “The Dance Class” (1874), “The Rehearsal ...

The Impressionist painter was fascinated ... Nina Hamnett was known for dancing naked in her studio, so much so that she was admired by contemporary dance pioneer Isadora Duncan.

It promises a “fresh evaluation” of the first Impressionist exhibition that opened in the French capital, in a former photographer’s studio at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, on 15 April 1874.

Amongst those exhibitions was French Impressionism, a particularly well ... you can just enjoy the incredible dance of the brush across the canvas,” says Dr Gott. Photograph: Supplied/NGV ...