Impressionist Landscape 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 Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Gouache
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
A cluster of cacti bask in the warm afternoon light near Del Rio, Texas. The radiant sun highlights their prickly exteriors and vibrant colors. Contrasting wi...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
1870s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1870s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Illustration Board, Gouache
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Mary Pratt described the low country marsh as her favorite place to paint. In this piece, she simplified the greens of the landscape by capturing the s...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Board
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Artist Comments
Artist Karen d’Angeac Mihm lived in Germany with her family for a few years. She loved painting the villages they would visit. This particular scene was in ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Gold Leaf
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Artist Comments
I contrasted the cold blue of the ocean with the warm tones of the rocks. The brushwork is expressive and textured.
About the Artist
Suren is an impressionist painter eloquently capturing nature, landscapes, and cityscapes in paint. His body of work reflects several different stylistic approaches. Suren’s scenes in oil are inspired by Impressionist masters Monet and Van Gogh, while his watercolor series of flowers and birds are influenced by Eastern styles of painting and the colors of the Middle Eastern environment. Suren believes his role as an artist is to remind viewers that we all are part of the same natural universe.
Words that describe this painting: seascape, californian landscape, El matador beach...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Board
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
Artist Valerie Berkely presents a dreamy summer seascape. The warm color palette and gentle movements stir sun-soaked memories and carefree beach vacations. W...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board