Impressionist Still-life 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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1940s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
1970s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1980s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Plywood
1980s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Board, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1940s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
This still-life painting features a lively bouquet of pink flowers in a vase. Painted with a palette knife, the various blooms carry subtle textures, adding d...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
1860s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Sherri Aldawood presents an impressionist still life of vibrant sunflowers and a few pickings of fruit. The subjects bask in the afternoon light, casting elongated shadows on the surface. "I set up and painted this still life in my backyard using flowers from my garden," shares Sherri. The warm color palette exudes the feeling of comfort that comes with these seasonal blooms.
About the Artist
Sherri Aldawood didn't intend to always paint flowers, but over time her love of gardens started to permeate her art. She focuses on the light and color of the flowers on the canvas. Sherri prefers alla prima, working with wet layers of paint instead of letting them dry. She keeps the paint as wet as possible by using walnut and clove oil...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Masonite, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1930s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil