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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East Hampton Landsape , Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, dated lower , numbered right 2 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available.printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color P...
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Skyline with Gold light
Located in Miami, FL
New York City Skyline with Gold light . Signature: Signed , dated lower right and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, printed later, Other sizes available. PRi...
Photographic Paper
South Beach, Miami Beach
Located in Miami, FL
South Beach, Miami Beach is captured at the precise moment where the color in the sky is echoed by the color in the streetscape Signature: Signed , dated l...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Magenta Umbrella
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso 2/15, , Unframed Dashes of cool greys and accents of blues and magenta vibrate subtly across the picture surface ...
Photographic Paper
Word Trade Center in Blue, New York
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been shooting the WTC as it was being built in 1970. Here is his latest artistic interpretation of the famous site, Signature: Signed , dated lower right and numb...
Photographic Paper
White Ducks in Prism of Color, Fine Art Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
White Ducks in Prism of Color is an early work where a creative color effect is used to express the evocative nature of a picturesque nature scene Signed and dated on lower right, ...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco in Gold with
Located in Miami, FL
Luminous late afternoon light baths the city in soft golden energy. I lone Motorcyclist adds a dynamic to this well structured composition. Signed and dated on lower right, number...
Photographic Paper
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...
Photographic Paper
Two Umbrellas in New York Snowstorm
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow creates a shadowless scene which allows blue and red umbrellas to pop out from a subdued background. Funk captures a magic moment of perfect spacial and color harmony. ...
Photographic Paper
Central Park in Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a very early pioneer of color photography. In this striking image, he is using negative color to give an simultaneous beautiful yet eerie effect . Remarkably, Centra...
Photographic Paper
Bow Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Statue of Liberty and Ferry in Morning Mist
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
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Mail Boxes in the Snow , Long Island
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15, Unframed , Other sizes available
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Colorful Boats, East Hampton
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, 3/15 numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, Hahnemuhle Baryta Fne Art Paper.
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
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 ...
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Fifth Avenue in a blizzard
Located in Miami, FL
City traffic never seemed so beautiful. l2/15 Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available
Photographic Paper
Golden Gate Bridge at Sunrise , Misty Light in Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Soft misty light pours into the scene evoking a poetic expression of a lyrical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size availabl...
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Snow Scene with American Flag
Located in Miami, FL
Photo-impressionist work from a birds-eye view Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Photographic Paper
Walking the Dog in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Golden late light rushes in central park with illuminate a man and his dog with a glowing ring of light. This was done in 1973 and due to new sky scrapper construction this angle i...
Oil
East Hampton Swimming Pool in the Rain
Located in Miami, FL
Soft pinks and blues beckon in the rain Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Purple San Francisco Victorian
Located in Miami, FL
The Color Purple by man and by nature. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 1/15, other size available, unframed
Photographic Paper
New York Skyline in Yellow and blue
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon light baths the downtown skyline in a impressionist palette of soft light blues and pale yellows. The camera angle, lighting and long lens which compresses spaces tra...
Photographic Paper
Manhattan from Long Island City, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Hampton Beach - Glistening Light and Cumulus Clouds
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered , 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed. printed later Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Co...
Photographic Paper
View of Russian Hill, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Unframed Other sizes available , printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pione...
Photographic Paper
Cherry blossoms Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Photographic Paper
Colorful People Central Park Snow
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
Photographic Paper
Child Cat
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
Photographic Paper
Central Park in the Snow
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available,
Photographic Paper
Chrysler Building Crown with Gold Light - Mitchell Funk, urban photography
Located in Miami, FL
Precise composition with magical late late is a hallmark of Mithcell Funk's work This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work ...
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Cars against Bay Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available...
Photographic Film
Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Mitchell Funk pioneered the use of late, dr...
Photographic Paper
Times Square in the Rain
Located in Miami, FL
signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition of 3/15, Unframed. Other size available
Photographic Paper
Water Music Series #4996 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Archival Pigment
Water Music Series #5037 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Archival Pigment
Water Music Series #5040 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Archival Pigment
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Watching The Sunset
By Ivan Butorac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A delightful new work by the artist
Archival Pigment