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Impressionist Portrait Photography

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

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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Style: Impressionist
Polish Woman - Impressionist Mid 20th Century Oil Painting by Helena Krajewska
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the...
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1950s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Oil, Board

Peacock Blue and Green. Colorful Pheasants
Located in Miami, FL
This close-up of a peacock displaying is defined by late dramatic light. Robert Funk is a photographer and New York advertising art director for Print and TV. He was widely publishe...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Laszczyn - Building a Stack 2 - Mid 20th Century Oil Painting by H Krajewska
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Oil, Board

Raining with Sunshine: Three Horses in Autumn Rain and Golden Light in New York
Located in Miami, FL
For 55 years, Mithcell Funk has been capturing the emotive power of color and light. In the present image, "Raining with Sunshine," Funk captures three horses lined up in a row and ...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans. S...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Peacock Blue and Green. Colorful Pheasant Bird
Located in Miami, FL
This close-up of a peacock displaying is defined by late, dramatic light. The photographer is lying on his belly in the dirt - inches from the bird to get this intimate upward-look...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Classical Roman Bronze Head in thought
Located in Miami, FL
Roman bronze figure after the antique is capture in an introspective moment. Highlights on the eyelids accent the dreamy quality of the gaze. ...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet

Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
Located in Miami, FL
The male peacock is a living work of art. Mitchell Funk has captured a moment of full display with iridescent coloration. Arguably, the male peacock ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Jazz Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk, Soulful Rainbow of Color Magenta Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. The color will vary ...
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1980s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available, Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian Mitchell ...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Trumpet Player: Soulful Rainbow of Color
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
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1980s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Classical Roman Bronze Head in Thought
Located in Miami, FL
Roman bronze figure after the antique is capture in an introspective moment. Highlights on the eyelids accent the dreamy quality of the gaze. ...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available, Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian Mitchell ...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Dream Girl
Located in Miami, FL
Done in 1970 during the psychedelic era, Mitchell Funk zooms a sleeping girl in Central Park. There a perfect balance between the zoom of colors emanating from her head and the as...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Photographic Paper

East Village Bums, Tramps Smoking and Drinking at Blue Green Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Four East Village down-and-out derelicts and apparent friends sit on a step and engage in a lively chat. They are smoking and drinking. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Pecocks in Green and Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Double portrait of colorful peacocks with shimmering plumage set against a verdant background. Robert Funk is a photographer and New York advertising art director for Print and TV....
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Pigment

Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk Soulful Rainbow of Color
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
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1980s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Golden Classical Bronze Head in thought
Located in Miami, FL
Roman bronze figure after the antique is capture in an introspective moment. Highlights on the eyelids accent the dreamy quality of the gaze. Signed, dated and numbered lower rig...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Inkjet

Untitled #12 (from Unfocused Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Anne K Smith Title: Untitled #12 (from Unfocused Series) Medium: Archival Inkjet Print on Museo Silver Rag Size: 10.5 x 16 inches Available in sets of 3 (mix and match) Entire "Unfo...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

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