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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2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist David Thelen captures the beauty of the outdoors in this composition. "When I was renovating my home, I often found myself enjoying the summer colors out...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
Artist Stanislav Sidorov captures a couple walking in a fairytale-looking town. The street light accentuates the building's medieval details and casts a dramati...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Cotton Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Fiberboard, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Canvas, Oil
1890s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
As a part of his Cityscape series, artist Stanislav Sidorov paints a vibrant display of Café Van Gogh in Arles, France. The ca...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paint, Lights, Color
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Paint, Lights, Color
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Using a limited palette and harmonious colors, artist Faye Vander Veer paints a leisurely scene of a winter afternoon at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. "There ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Foil