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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Late 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Warm sunlight bathes a monastery and lavender fields. Lush green hills rise in the background, framing the peaceful scene. The artwork depicts the Abbey of Se...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Gouache, Board
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
Artist Comments
The cafes of Puente la Reina are lively before the siesta. Sunlight filters through lush green trees, casting dappled shadows across a bustling sidewalk. Warm...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
1880s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
As part of his Cityscape Series, artist Stanislav Sidorov captures Andreevsky Spusk Street with a vibrant palette. The cathedral oversees the city, its bells ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Masonite, Oil
1930s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Artist Comments
This artwork captures the hot, dry atmosphere of the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia. Rustic barns and copper-colored fields stand beneath a cloudless, viv...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Sunlight bathes a traditional adobe courtyard with a kiva fireplace at the center. Hollyhocks, ristas, and lupine add pops of color against the neutral garden...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
Artist Comments
The painting offers a glimpse of the houses surrounding a river in Estella, Spain, a charming town along the Camino de Santiago. The sun casts a warm glow ont...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Mixed Media
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil