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Paris, the 1870s–80s

Impressionism

Painters who walked out of the studio to work in daylight — and brought back pictures made of quick, visible brush-marks, ordinary subjects, and the feel of passing time. The academy called their first show impression-ism as an insult; the name stuck.

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5walls·15pieces

Late 19th century, Western Europe

Post-Impressionism

A generation of artists who followed Impressionism — rejecting its softness for a harder, more personal language. Vivid color, unreal light, and raw emotional weight, each painter insisting that a painting could carry meaning beyond the things it depicted.

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2walls·6pieces

Japanese woodblock prints

Ukiyo-e

Pictures of the floating world — block-printed scenes of Edo-era life, landscape, and weather. Produced in multiples for everyday circulation, they travelled west in the 1850s and reshaped how European painters thought about composition and flatness.

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5walls·11pieces

Dreams, myth, ornament

Symbolism & Art Nouveau

At the turn of the 20th century a different kind of image emerged — interior, emblematic, and charged. Symbolists painted the inner life and Art Nouveau carried that sensibility out into the applied arts. This block closes with a short moving-image piece.

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2walls·6pieces

17th century, United Provinces

Dutch Golden Age

A century of portrait, domestic interior, and still-life painting produced in a new republic that had just invented the art market. Light is the subject: how it falls through a window, off a wall, against a pearl.

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3walls·6pieces

Europe, 1800–1850

Romanticism

Painting as weather, weather as feeling. Romantic artists treated landscape as a psychological state and rendered history as sensation. Here is the storm, the solitary figure, the barricade.

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