Marjorie Blake
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Fiberboard
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Fiberboard
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Fiberboard
People Also Browsed
1920s Other Art Style Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Illustration Board, Oil, Pen
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil, Panel
Vintage 1970s French Modern Paintings
Paint
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Paint, Board
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Venice Landscape Italian Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Wood Frame, Belle Epoque, Early 20th Century
1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Paper, Gouache
1950s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
20th Century Italian Paintings
Canvas
20th Century Italian Paintings
Canvas
1940s Portrait Paintings
Paper, Pastel
Mid-20th Century Slovenian Folk Art Paintings
Paint
1960s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Recent Sales
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Pastel, Watercolor
1960s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1960s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Cardboard
1960s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Cardboard
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Cardboard, Tissue Paper
1970s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
1970s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
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A Close Look at Impressionist Art
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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