Impressionist Black and White Photography
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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1980s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper
2010s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin, Phot...
2010s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
2010s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
2010s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Black and White
1970s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
1970s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1970s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
1970s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Early 2000s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Polaroid, Silver Gelatin
Early 2000s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Polaroid, Silver Gelatin
2010s Impressionist Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Black and White
