Modern Art Favorites while a series of incisive

while a series of incisive and eye-opening essays by eminent scholars and contemporary artists touch on a broad range of topics

It distills the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime’s work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments—and lifetimes—of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us

Seeming to say it all with a knowing nod

In a constant desire to challenge

began painting pictures with rapid

Modern Art Favorites while a series of incisiveEdited by Hans Werner Holzwarth Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first assault on the artistic