Impressionist Figurative 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 — 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 Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Gouache
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Cardboard, Gouache
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1870s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-18th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero shares a tender moment of children swimming by the sea. Part of a series of summer paintings that explo...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1870s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Linen
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero lives just minutes from the New Jersey shore, where he and his wife enjoy long walks along the beach. In the quieter winter months, the ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Masonite, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Gold Leaf
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Wood, Oil
1860s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board