LEARN / READ

Read about art.

Read about Impressionism, great painters, color, and composition. Explore the paintings as you go.

Learn what changed in Impressionist painting, then look for it in a landscape by Monet.

Explore reflections, brush marks, and the space between the lilies in Monet’s pond.

Look at how color and strong outlines turn an ordinary room into a memorable painting.

Compare the carefully painted faces with the loose landscape in Two Sisters (On the Terrace).

Find the tilted objects, repeated shapes, and unexpected tabletop in The Basket of Apples.

Use Caillebotte’s rainy Paris street to explore scale, lines, and the edges of a picture.

Guides for looking and making

Simple ways to spend more time with art and start a creative habit.

A simple way to notice more, with no art history knowledge required.

Look at how neighboring colors change the feeling of a painting.

Three small exercises for building a habit of drawing.

Start with a painting.