Impressionist Figurative Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
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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Style: Impressionist
Artist: André Gisson
Impressionist Painting "Ballerina" by Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Rochester, NY
"Ballerinas" impressionist painting by Andre Gisson (1921-2003). Soft colors and bright light are hallmarks of Gissons work. This is rare subject manor for the artist. Although Ame...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Fabric, Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Painting "Ballerina" by Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Rochester, NY
"Ballerinas" impressionist painting by Andre Gisson (1921-2003). Soft colors and bright light are hallmarks of Gisson's work. This is rare subject manor for the artist. Although Am...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Young Girl in Summer, Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Andre Gisson (1921-2003)
Title: Young Girl in Summer
Year: circa 1973
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed, recto
ANDRE GISSON ...
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Parisian Boulevard
By André Gisson
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Beautiful Impressionist painting featuring elegantly-dressed Parisians out for an afternoon stroll. Bouquets of flowers rest in a tub to the left of the streetlamp, while a horse-dra...
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