Impressionist Mixed Media
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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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Marble, Sandstone
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
Artist Comments
Artist Jennifer Ross shows a majestic portrait of a white stallion leaping over a fence. Part of her ongoing Kintsugi Horse series, she uses broken and collaged eggshells to form the anatomy of her subject. A flock of barn swallows...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Marble, Sandstone
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
1970s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas, Oil Pastel
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Cotton, Wood, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Pan...
Early 2000s Impressionist Mixed Media
Plastic, Sailcloth, Chalk, Fabric, Wood, Oil, Mixed Media, Paper
Early 2000s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Cotton, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood, Wood Pan...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Wire
Early 2000s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Cotton, Epoxy Resin, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Glaze, Mixed Media, Oil
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Keith Thomson depicts the Mets mascot riding the train—once again establishing his recurring narrative of unexpected commuters in transit. "With their ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
Early 20th Century Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Late 19th Century Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Mixed Media, Wood Panel