Impressionist Interior Paintings
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 ā Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul CĆ©zanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir ā 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 Monetās was derided by a critic as an unfinished āimpression,ā 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 ā Ćdouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Ćmile 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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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Gouache
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Panel, Archival Paper, Oil
19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Archival Paper, Panel
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Nava Lundy paints a woman walking along an empty street. She treads along puddles that beautifully showcase the reflections of the architecture and sky i...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
1910s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1880s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Set during an evening on Wacker Drive, the artwork offers an atmospheric view of Chicago, featuring the iconic Tribune Tower and surrounding buildings. The stre...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Pencil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Cardboard, Oil
1930s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Gouache
Late 19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
Artist Comments
A gated chateau in Aix en Provence offers a romantic feel as green foliage and warm sunlight spill over its yellow stone wall. The expressive strokes convey the...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
The glow of the Chicago Theater's sign contrasts radiantly with the deepening blues and browns of the urban landscape. Golden and russet tones of twilight bathe...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Ink, Oil, Acrylic