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Impressionism

Odilon Redon, Ophelia Among the Flowers (detail)

RA Exhibitions

10 months ago

Six Impressionists you should know

Move over, Monet! Here are six Impressionists we think deserve the spotlight.
Edgar Degas, Dancers on a Bench

RA Exhibitions

1 year ago

Start here: Impressionists on Paper

Find out more about the ways Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists worked on paper ahead of our latest exhibition.
Berthe Morisot, Woman with a Fan. Portrait of Madame Marie Hubbard (Femme à l'éventail. Portrait de madame Marie Hubbard) (detail)

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

Two women artists who broke into the boys’ club

How do you succeed as an artist in 19th-century Paris when male social circles are closed to you? Berthe Morisot and Eva Gonzalès are two women artists who found a way.
Edouard Manet, The Railway

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

Documentary: inside our Manet exhibition

Originally released in cinemas, this ‘Exhibition on Screen’ film takes you back in time to visit the Royal Academy’s 2013 ‘Manet: Portraying Life’ exhibition, one of our most visited shows of all time. Take a trip to 19th-century Paris where the story of this modern master unfolds – and peep behind the scenes at the RA, as the curators prepared to tell his story in this major show.
Exhibition on screen Monet film still

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

Video: inside the artists’ gardens

Join curator Ann Dumas on a tour through the gardens of Claude Monet, Pierre Bonnard, Emile Nolde, Max Liebermann and Henri Le Sidaner. Filmed ahead of our 2016 exhibition, ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’, take a moment to escape to the idyllic rural wilderness.

Claude Monet, The Artist's Garden in Argenteuil, 1873

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

Documentary: inside ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’

Originally released in cinemas, this ‘Exhibition on Screen’ film takes us back to our landmark exhibition, ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’, examining the role gardens played in the evolution of art from the early 1860s through to the 1920s.
Henry Tuke RA, A Bathing Group (detail)

Our Collection

> 7 years ago

How to read it: Henry Tuke’s A Bathing Group

The year 2017 was the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality, marked at Tate Britain with an exhibition of ‘Queer British Art’, featuring Henry Tuke’s A Bathing Group from our collection. Take a closer look…
Pierre Bonnard's garden

RA Exhibitions

< 9 years ago

Video: a visit to three artist gardens in northern France

Take a tour of three beautiful gardens which inspired paintings in our forthcoming exhibition on the garden in art.