classical music, claude debussy, france, impressionism, impressionists, maurice ravel

Impressionists’ Classical Music: The Legacy of Debussy and Ravel

Throughout much of the 18th and 19th centuries, classical music artists concentrated on emotional expression in their compositions. However, by the end of the 19th century, budding musicians like Debussy and Ravel, known as impressionists, were craving new and exciting ways of exploring their talents. Impressionism shook the music world from the 1890s to the ...

David Clapp

Impressionist painting by Claude Monet.

Plein Air Painting: What It Means to Paint True to Nature

Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing landscape painting and drawing. The practice goes back centuries, but it was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes ...

Emma Lu

John Constable's 'Stoke-by-Nyland' painting.