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 — 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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Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
A field of tulips bursts into bloom along Chicago’s iconic Michigan Avenue. The softened architecture glows under a pastel-hued sky, while rich strokes of pin...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Linen
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
A solitary, weathered cabin stands quietly in a vast, open desert. Bare trees stretch upward, while the ground lies blanketed in snow. Stark black and white ton...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
1890s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero captures a lively moment inside a flower shop at Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market, just before Mother’s Day. Surrounded by a daz...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Linen, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Rovinj, Croatia, is an enchanting village with a charming downtown. In this scene, a winding cobblestone street leads to a church, its steeple rising graceful...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Copper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Oil
19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic