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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
Artist: Jacques Zucker
Parisian Street Scene, Oil on Canvas Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study fine arts at the Bezalel Art...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still life of Flowers on Table
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Zucker was a prolific artist whose works are exhibited in Museums and galleries around the world. Being heavily influenced by artist such as Soutine, Chagall, and Renoir, we ...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Buildings at the Pier" Impressionist Outdoor Port Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts an outdoors scene of a small port with boats in the water. The fun details are what make this painting so attractive and desirable. The piece is done in a highl...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

"Rockport Quarry" Impressionistic Oil Painting Landscape Overlooking Houses
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a landscape of Rockport Quarry over looking houses on a cliff, with the water just below. This piece was painted in 1944 on sight with great gestural brushwork ...
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1940s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

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