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: Marc Dalessio
"Bagno Vignoni" impressionist painting of Italian village architecture
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Bagno Vignoni" is a contemporary impressionist painting of an Italian village and its beautiful architecture.
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Ta Som, Angor Wat" plein air painting of Buddhist Temple, Cambodia, earth tones
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Ta Som, Angor Wat" is a plein air oil painting of the Buddhist Temple in Cambodia. The painting has earth tones and was painted in the shade, no doubt to escape the heat while tryin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Estremoz Castle, Summer" bright plein air oil painting landscape in Portugal
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Estremoz Castle, Summer" is a bright and breezy plein air oil painting of a hilltown in Portugal. One of four paintings Dalessio did of the castle in four seasons.
Framed Dimensio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Estremoz Castle, Spring" bright landscape in Portugal, painted en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Estremoz Castle, Spring" bright landscape in Portugal, painted en plein air. One of four paintings Dalessio did of the castle in four seasons.
Framed Dimensions: 17 x 20 inches
M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Extinction Rebellion Protest, London" impressionist painting of 2019 protest
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Extinction Rebellion Protest, London" is an impressionist painting of the 2019 fashion week protest to raise awareness around the environmental impact of the fashion industry and th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Estremoz Castle, Winter" snowy view of Portuguese village painted en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Estremoz Castle, Winter" is a contemporary impressionist snowy view of a Portuguese hilltop village painted en plein air. One of four paintings Dalessio did of the castle in four se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Palo Corona, Carmel Valley" Contemporary realist plein air painting, California
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Palo Corona, Carmel Valley" is a contemporary realist plein air painting in California.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Cali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Montauk Fishing Boat" contemporary realist blue green oil painting en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Montauk Fishing Boat" is a contemporary realist oil painting, painted en plein air with blue and green hues.
Marc has emerged as a true master of his craft. Whether his work depic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Morning Deliveries, Soho" NYC street scene painted en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Morning Deliveries, Soho" is an NYC street scene painted en plein air.
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Painter on the Jurassic Coast
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air on the cliffs of England, Dalessio captures a painter painting along the cliff-line.
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, C...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Soccer Players in Central Park - NYC skyline looking Downtown - en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein air in Central Park, in New York City. A large grassy field painted with a bright green, meets a tree lined horizon in autumnal colors. The skyline stands against a lavender sky. Figures scattered throughout the green expanse, playing soccer on the close right.
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was art. In 1989 he started at the University of California at Santa Cruz where he focused on both art and biology. During his time in Santa Cruz, Marc experimented with different schools of painting and spent much of his spare time studying the history and culture of the profession. He finished his outstanding academic career, graduating Phi Beta Kappa...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Beach Grass, Twilight
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was art. In 1989 he started at the University of California at Santa Cruz where he focused on both art and biology. During his time in Santa Cruz, Marc experimented with different schools of painting and spent much of his spare time studying the history and culture of the profession. He finished his outstanding academic career, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, in 1992.
After university, Marc moved to Florence, Italy, where he spent the next eight years developing his style and refining his technique. Initially, Marc studied under Svetlan Kracsyna at Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts, where he earned a master printmaker degree. From there he went on to train as a portraitist at a small traditional painting atelier.
Marc has emerged as a true master of his craft. Whether his work depicts an Indian landscape or an Italian businessman, the lines and color in his paintings attempt to reveal the nature of his subjects. In his portraits, he works to find the essence of the model, trying to use the true character of the individual to decide the mood of the painting. His plein air landscapes, which range in subject from exotic locations around the world to his own backyard, attempt to capture both the present and the history of the environment, touching the soul with his own unique view of the scenery. In all his works, his dedication to light and color, and the subtly of his subjects, enraptures even the most casual observer.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1997 - 2013 Portraitist
Il Ritratto Gallery, Poggio Imperiale 17, Florence
1998 - 2008 Associate Artist
Portraits Inc., 985 Park Avenue, New York
2003 - 2008 Instructor, Advanced Studio Art and Landscape Painting classes
Florence Academy of Art, Via della Casine 21/R, Florence
1997 - 2002 Instructor, Advanced Portraiture and Landscape Painting classes
Charles H. Cecil Studios, Borgo San Frediano 68, Florence
1996 - 1999 Graphic Designer
Cook Studio, Via Puccinotti 54, Florence
EDUCATION
1993 - 1997 Charles H. Cecil Studios
Florence, Italy
Awarded meritorious scholarship
1992 - 1993 Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts
Florence
Master Printmaker Certificate
1989 - 1992 University of California at Santa Cruz
Bachelors degree with Honors in Fine Arts
Phi Beta Kappa
PUBLICATIONS
December 2009 American Artist Magazine “Painting Landscapes in Exact Scale”
June, 2002 La Mia Casa Magazine. Italy. “Ritorna la Voglia di Ritratto”
November, 2001 Town and Country Magazine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Ponta da Piedade Cliffs
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio's plein air painting captures the light that reflects off the water and cliffs at Ponta da Piedade in Portugal.
Framed dimensions: 17.5 x 13.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Marc Dale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Church Window
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air study of a church window. Even with such few brushstrokes, Dalessio manages to bring a romantic feeling to the panel painting.
Artist Bio
M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Carmel Beach
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the rocks that overlook the ocean in Carmel, California. A figure sits on the rocks taking in the sublime waterscape.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Hay Bales
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting, painted from a sketch done en plein air, a field half shaded by a large tree on the right side of the canvas.
Framed Dimensions: 33 .5 x 41.25 inches
Signed by t...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Arroyo Seco, Vineyard
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a vineyard with sfumato mountains in the background.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Dona Ana
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a beach day at Dona Ana beach in Portugal. Dalessio masterfully composes the translucent water washing up on the shore.
Framed Dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5
Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Old Oaks
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a sprawling landscape with old oak trees in shadow.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in hi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Panel
"Tangiers" bright scene of a quiet and colorful street painted en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Tangiers" is a bright scene of a quiet and colorful street painted en plein air. This impressionistic plein air painting depicts a charming street in Tangiers, Morocco. Dalessio mas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Sailboat in Rockport
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting a boat in the Rockport harbor. The glittering water stands out in this impressionistic painting—a feature Dalessio excels at.
Artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil, Panel
House in Chianti
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A serene plein air painting of a Tuscan-style house seen through thick summer foliage.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest yea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Path in the Woods, Bex
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a snowy scene. Dalessio transports his viewer into this wilderness landscape.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Landscape Painter
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a landscape painter at work in Tuscany.
Framed dimensions: 13 x 17
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earli...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Assilah
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio depicts a corridored of Assilah, Morocco in this plein air painting. The paint on the buildings mirrors the color of the bright blue sky above. The style of the building at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Beach Wildflowers
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A deeply impressionistic plein air painting of the beach and its flora. Clouds along the horizon, waves crashing on the beach.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Mar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Trippa Stand, Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a man buying Trippa, a Florentine street food, in a small piazza.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Boats on the Beach, Sag Harbor
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio has painted a view onto Sag Harbor's Long Wharf from the small beach at the end of Main Street, steps away from The Grenning Gallery. A Long Island town famous for its whali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Blue Hydrangeas
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
The fullness of the flowers created by Dalessio's loose brush strokes brings feelings of the heights of summer.
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Lagos Harbor
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio, en plein air, depicts the an impressionist's view of the Lagos harbor of Portugal. Dalessio is able to compose the entire harbor of mostly red and blue tones.
Framed dime...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Wood Panel, Oil
Top of Corral de Tierra
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of an expansive California landscape.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Wood Panel, Oil
Church in Maremma
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a path leading to a Tuscan church. This painting is from earlier in Dalessio's career, and a great marker of how his style has evolved over the years.
Framed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
View from Arrifana
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio makes the sea sparkle in this plein air depiction of the coast of Portugal.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angele...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Ice Plant, Carmel-by-the-Sea
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the Carmel coast in California. The quick white brushstrokes approximate the crashing water on the rocks.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los An...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Ben Painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a plein air painter! An impressionistic oil painting of an artist friend, Ben Fenske, painting outdoors. Painted in Italy, American realist painter, Marc Dale...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Santa Maria Novella" 2007 realist landscape, oil painting, Tuscany, dirt road
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by American plein-air painter Marc Dalessio. A depiction of the rolling hills of Tuscany. Cultivated nature lives on the left with the vineyard organized with fencep...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Yellow Lupin in a Cork Forest
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a sea of bright Lupins. The flowers are thriving, but a tree in the background has fallen to the ground.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Ang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Florence Mid-Afternoon
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of a landscape in Florence, Italy, painted en plein air.
ARTIST BIO
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was eviden...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
The Grand Canal
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
The rippling water reflects the bright colored buildings in this atmospheric painting of The Grand Canal in Venice. A Gondolier is depicted in shadow, rowi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hollywood and Vine, Stoplight
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a Hollywood intersection at a quiet moment.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Ev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Zadar, the Riva II
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a busy pier.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Ditch Plains
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a surfer about to head into the waves while in the background sunbathers recline under their umbrellas. A serene depiction of a summer day at Ditch Plains...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Haybales Dawn
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of haybales in a field, with sfumato mountains in the background.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest yea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Sarges Port
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio's plein air painting depicts a group of boats on the beach of Sarges port with the breakwater in the distance.
Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Artist Bio:
Marc Dale...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Hook Head Lighthouse
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the Hook Head lighthouse in Ireland. Dalessio constructs a nostalgic view of a longstanding landmark.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Santa Croce
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a winding street. Light speckles the shady street. A study in the masterful use of perspective by Dalessio.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Tribeca Sunset
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting. An impressionistic view of a street in Tribeca. The setting sun illuminates the skyscraper in the distance.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Lago Maggiore
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of Lago Maggiore, framed by the foliage on the edge of the lake. Boats appear in the background. Dalessio masterfully paints the rip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Fisherman, Praia da Crodoama
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a fisherman pulling in a fish on the beach. Fishing poles are set up along the beach, still waiting for a tug. The composition is made up of soft pastel color...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Ames Pond No.3
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a misty day on a pond. Reminiscent of Monet's waterlilies.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Birdhouse and Milkweed
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Dalessio excels at the full foliage seen in this small painting. The greens glow and the little bit of the water that can be seen nearly shimmers.
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Primosten
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of the Primsten coast in Croatia. A figure stands on the rocks looking out at the sparkling water.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Cal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil, Wood Panel
Soho Morning
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Plein-air street scene painting in Soho, NY.
Artist Bio:
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years, it was evident that his passion was a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
New Chalets
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air painting of a snowy landscape. Ski chalets line the side of the composition. Dalessio uses the color of the wood panel peeking out under the paint as the light of the set...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil, Panel
Side of a Sunflower Field
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A plein air depiction of a pastoral landscape. The sunflowers seem to go on infinitely.
Artist Bio
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Indian Wells Beach, Late Summer
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting, of a bright clear day at a beach. The lifeguards on the lifeguard stands are backlit and the horizon is lined with blue and white umbrellas.
Framed Dimensions: 44.5...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Salt on Canal Street
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This painting by Marc Dalessio conveys the beautiful chaos of New York on a snowy day with salt on the ground. Somehow Dalessio is able to make even New York look serene, conveying m...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Jeffersonville Farm II (VT)
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A serene winter scene in Vermont. The smooth layers of snow are untouched and reflect the color of the sky. A big white house in the background matches the tones of the snow and sky,...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
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