Impressionist 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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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Jonelle Summerfield beautifully captures a quintessential view of Sedona's red rocks. The contrasting lush greenery enhances the warm landscape. The ru...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Linen, Oil
1950s Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Canvas, Board
Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Paintings
Masonite, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Cardboard, Gouache
1960s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1890s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Wood
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings
Watercolor
1910s Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1980s Impressionist Paintings
Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic, Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Artist Comments
Artist Yangzi Xu depicts a breathtaking evening scene at dusk on Wacker Drive, Chicago. "The lights of the city are on, creating a mesmerizing effervescence t...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero captures a winter night in Manhattan, blending views of 5th and 7th Avenues looking south. The soft, glowing lights and bustling traffic...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1870s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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 Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero shares a tender moment of children swimming by the sea. Part of a series of summer paintings that explo...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Canvas, Oil