Impressionist Art
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
Color: Blue
Artist: Richard Szkutnik
Yellowstone River SD, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Sunrise, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Horse in Blue, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
original horse oil on panel painting :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Golden Hills, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
New Mexico Spring, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in New Mexico :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
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2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Big Dry Creek East, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Spring melt snow by Big Dry Creek Original oil on canvas :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signe...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Indonesia #17, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Indonesia village original oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
New Construction, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
New construction in Denver original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang:...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
New Construction, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
New construction in Denver original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang:...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
White Trailer, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Cripple Creek, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Original en plein air oil on panel paint in Cripple Creek City Colorado :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Edge of Creek, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
original oil on canvas paint from en plein air :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Y...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Canal, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
"Canal" original en plein air oil on panel paint by Marble Falls Lake :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the arti...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
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