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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
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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 Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

New York Skyline, Hotel Dixie
Located in Miami, FL
In the early in1970's Mitchell Funk was one of the very few photo innovators who used extreme late afternoon golden light. In "Hotel Dixie, 1975, the intense light not only illumin...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Photographic Paper

New York Skyscraper in Golden Burst of Light
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes spiritual. Late afternoon golden light bounces back at the viewer and transforms a building into something more than a building. Signature: Signed and dated on ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Photographic Paper

Park Avenue in the Rain
Located in Miami, FL
A magical Manhattan moment is captured with divergent light sources and supernatural color. A singular figure, front and center walks among the colorful cars. Chromogenic archiva...
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Impressionist Art

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Photographic Paper

The Compliant
Located in London, GB
can never be calm Dawn Beckles’ use of paint, print making and collage create bold depictions of the domestic: the exotic flora inspired by her native B...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Camouflage I
Located in Singapore, SG
Camouflage I's formless red layers may seem to divest her of any physical movement, the emotional expression adds to her potent strength of being rather than becoming, giving her add...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tulips - Oil Still Life Painting Colors Red White Blue Yellow Ivory Pink
Located in Sofia, BG
"Tulips" is a painting by Maestro impressionist Maria Raycheva. The painting is unframed. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Lisa Palombo, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" Secretariat Equine Acrylic Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This bold and patriotic equine impressionist painting, "Big Red Flag Portrait #5" by artist Lisa Palombo is a 24x18 acrylic sketch on watercolor paper. De...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Peaches , Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, Still-life, 7x10, Impressionism
Located in Houston, TX
Peaches is a 7 x 10 framed Watercolor and Gouache on Paper . It is framed and ready to be shipped. One artist described Santoli's paintings as "Now that is a world class oil painting! Realistic casual brush work. The best I have seen. Delicious !! " Artist Statement: I simply love painting and my goal is to capture sunlight and color so that viewers can enjoy it as well. Eric Santoli...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Watercolor, Paper, Gouache

Mid Century Still Life with Burgundy and White African Daisies & Statue
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful vintage impressionistic still life with burgundy and white African daisies (Osteospermum) in brass cache pot with statue by Marie Michael (Am...
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1930s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

French Contemporary Art by Jean Duquoc - Une Terre de Lumière
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed at the bottom right Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, mov...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes. Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Orange Mountains, Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas, 2013
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Just some imaginary mountains. Wonder if there are orange mountains like these somewhere? Keywords: painting, landscape, orange, sunset, sunrise, imaginary Artist Biography: Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

The red poppies of Spain, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The red poppies of Spain The painting is inspired by the poppies field of Catalunya, a beautiful region of Spain. This impressionistic painting has been creating by using a ric...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Lavish Contemptuousness 3
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Amir Baradaran is a New York-based Iranian-Canadian ARtificial artist. As the Arts-Based Creative Research Associate and Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Baradaran is developing iBegoo, a multi-user software that supports artists with limited knowledge of game design and programing by streamlining and automating the process of writing for, directing, and producing interactive Augmented Reality (AR) experiences that include responsive characters enabled with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Baradaran is the recipient of the Knight Foundation Arts Award, Canada Council for the Arts New-Chapter & 150th Anniversary Prize, UC Berkeley Artist Residency (from Center for Critical Theory, New Media, Race and Gender Studies), International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Future of Augmented Reality Prize, and Morgan Stanley Pulse Art Fair grant. As a researcher at Columbia University Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab and a member of the School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab, Baradaran’s praxis and writings focus on a critical {AR}ticulation of visual vocabularies that use AR and AI technologies around notions of interactivity, non-linear narrative formation, po{AI}try, data-mining, failed utopias, racialized and gendered bodies, infiltration, and the ephemeral. Baradaran is a TEDx speaker, and an invited presenter to His Holiness Dalai Lama’s World Headquarters in Dharamsala for the Summit on Fostering Universal Ethics and Compassion through Museums. Baradaran is the co-author of the chapter Augmenting Empathy and Decolonizing AR/VR Mediums: How Do We Reimagine Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences?” (Ed. By Gokcigdem, 2019), the author of While Data Privacy Talks, Capitalism Walks: Urging for a Critical Take on the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem, and the Rise of the Machine (Ed. By Brielmaier, Forthcoming), and the co-editor of The Color of Queer Health Care: Experiences of Multiple Oppression in the Lives of Queer People of Color (-with Ryan, B. & Brotman, S. (eds.), 2006). Reviews of Baradaran’s work include Oxford University Press, Art in America, New York Observer, ARTNET, National Public Radio, BBC, Forbes, Euro-News, and L'Actualité. ARTINFO described his public art, Transient (installed in 6,300 NYC...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Mixed Media

Summer Update, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Abstract Art, Subject: Summer Update, Size: 44" x 68" x ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Red, Pink, and Blue
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: Red, pink, and blue flowers decorate the world! Words that describe this piece: Red, pink, poppy Artist Biography: Harold Davis is an artist and bestselling au...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Photographic Paper

Raven
Located in Austin, TX
Linda St. Clair (1952 - 2018) Title: "Raven" Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 14" x 14" Markings: Signed LL "St. Clair" Signed & Dated verso "[Copyright] Linda St....
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Notre Dame De Paris - Landscape Painting Oil Colors Red Yellow White Blue Black
Located in Sofia, BG
"La Notre Dame de Paris" is a painting by Maestro impressionist Maria Raycheva. The painting is unframed. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemp...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cook Islands Tropical Sunset Landscape with Red Anthurium Flower
Located in Soquel, CA
A dreamy tropical landscape of the beautiful Cook Islands coastline at sunset with a red anthurium flower in the foreground by Motohiko Ono (20th Century)...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

French Contemporary Art by Jean Duquoc - Le Crépuscule Sommeille dans Lit de Feu
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed at the bottom left Jean Duquoc is a French artist born in 1937 who lives & works in Belz, Brittany in France. In his work, we can see the skill with which he uses color, movi...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

'Summer Fields', Large Spanish Landscape Signed Oil Painting
By Steve Godfrey
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Summer Fields', Large Spanish Landscape Signed Oil Painting By Steve Godfrey, British artist, 21st Century Oil painting on canvas, unframed Signed on the lower right hand corner Can...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Vera, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My favorites colors: red and black :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed:...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Acrylic

Large 1960's French Portrait of Lady in Red signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Lady in Red" by Sophie Danielle Rubinstain (French 1922-2018) oil painting on canvas, unframed signed and dated 1963 canvas: 32 x 23.5 inches provenance: the artists estate W...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Red Sky, Impressionist Landscape, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Red Sky, Impressionist Landscape, Signed Oil Painting Signed by the artist and dated '09' on the lower right hand corner Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 16 x 24 inches ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Candlelight in St. Peregrine Chapel; Mission San Juan Capistrano
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Artist Statement "The warmth and glow of the flickering candle flames beckoned me to enter this intimate chapel dedicated to St. Peregrine (Pellegrino Latiosi, c. 1260-1345). Located inside Serra Church at Mission San Juan Capistrano...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Wood Panel, Oil

First Spill of Light, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Jo Moore's compelling original artwork draws on inspiration from nature, displaying dramatically rich textural surfaces. Sought after both nationally and internationally, and collect...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Pumphouse 2, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The Hollywood reservoir :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Malaysia II - Oil Landscape Painting Colors Red Blue Orange Green
Located in Sofia, BG
"Malaysia II" is a painting by Maestro impressionist Maria Raycheva. The painting is unframed. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edit...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Still Life with Pomegranates', California woman artist, Carmel Art Association
By Carole Minou
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right 'Minou' for Carole Minou (American, 1946-2012) and dated 1989. An elegant oil still-life showing a view of three pomegranates and a child's wooden block arranged behind a delicate Navajo weaving. A California native, Minou was a long-time member of the Carmel Art...
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1980s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Laid Paper

Ready For Christmas, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A teddy bear and a pink bunny have their car loaded with gifts and a tree. They are ready for Christmas. This holiday painting has been created using professional grade acrylics on u...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Impressionist art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art Paintings/style/impressionist/?creator=richard-szkutnik>paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Richard Szkutnik, Iryna Kastsova, and Mitchell Funk. Frequently made by artists working with Oil Paint, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Impressionist art, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $225 and tops out at $7,200, while the average work sells for $1,423.

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