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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: Mitchell Funk
Artist: Richard Szkutnik
Dogs are Part of the Landscape of Our Lives
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the pavement of a Manhattan basketball court. The intense gaze of a dog at attention punctuates a complex interplay of shadows and surface detail of lines ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Golden Gate Bridge with Warm Puffy Clouds. San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
The Golden Gate Bridge is depicted in warm golden light. Mitchell Funk's photograph is of an American classic shot in an original way. Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right re...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Girl in East Hampton Pond
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Girl in East Hampton Pond Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, unframed. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photog...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge, Urban Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are availab...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
:ate golden light transforms a dog into a graphic black shape that seems to float in magical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Impressionist Snow Storm - Bethesda Fountain Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow blankets Bethesda Fountain and simplifies the landscape so that only a few sick-figure people dot the blue on the blue-white ground. The one figure with a red coat acts ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Snow Abstract Architecture, Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City snowstorm allows Street Photographer Mitchell Funk to transform facades of Upper Eastside walkups into a stunning impressionist cityscape. Monochromatic grays are pun...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Snowstorm in Central Park by Mitchell Funk Winter Scene Monochomatic
Located in Miami, FL
A dot of red in a sea of white captured by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. The sub-text of this image is that in one of the world's most crowded places a person can be su...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

Bow Bridge Landscape in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Bow Bridge is one of the most iconic and photographed features of Central Park. Built in 1862, this Victorian-era bridge spans 60 feet across the Central Park Lake and connects Cherr...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Portrait of a San Francisco Cable Car Soaked in Bronze Light
Located in Miami, FL
In an unexpected bronze light, Mitchell Funk captures a classic view of San Francisco with a portrait of a famed cable car. The reflection of light in the car's left window gives the...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. ' Edition : 4 / 20 Signed, dated number lower right Printed later Other sizes available, unframed Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
Located in Miami, FL
The male peacock is a living work of art. Mitchell Funk has captured a moment of full display with iridescent coloration. Arguably, the male peacock ...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The classic view of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive with reflections is captured by veteran Color Photographer Mithcell Funk. The image overflows with soft bleeding colors that melt into...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Street Basketball with Angelic Light Burst in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Light jumps out. Players jump up. Light bounces off a window. Basketball bounces off a backboard. The interplay of extreme light and shadow makes "Street Basketball with Angelic Light " a unique and pioneering photograph. Taking in 1974, it was a rejection of contemporary color photography at the time, which was not concerned with light. This image by Funk is a glorification of light. As light strikes form, it becomes stylized and almost abstract, creating a new relationship between subject and style. An indication of the date this was taken is revealed by the old fashion TV antennas...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
Located in Miami, FL
Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bethesda Fountain with Out of Focus Figures
Located in Miami, FL
Bethesda Terrace, Central Park's masterpiece gathering place is joyfully interpreted by master-of-light photographer Mitchell Funk. This archival col...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Central Park Snow Storm, By Mitchell Funk, Landscape Photography, Impressionism
Located in Miami, FL
Snow comes to Manhattans' Central Park and veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures it. Besides the understated muted beauty of the image, it's a document of emptiness in ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Two Dog Friends in Golden Light - French Poodle
Located in Miami, FL
Golden Light defines two dogs as they have a head-to-head in a Manhattan park. Color Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene with a spontaneity and freshness from a rooftop van...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Golden Light - Magical Light - Edward Hopper
Located in Miami, FL
This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Jazz Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk, Soulful Rainbow of Color Magenta Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. The color will vary ...
Category

1980s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light 2014, Signed dated and numbered 4/15, right recto, inkjet archival print lower East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Sun Reflector with old men in the park. Vintage New York Street Scene
Located in Miami, FL
The glorification of light was an early theme Mitchell Funk employed in his street photography. Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 ...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, 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 ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Girl Looking Out - Landscape of the City - Landscape of Life
Located in Miami, FL
Enter Mitchell Funk's light-filled world. A column of light isolates a girl who looking at something out of frame. The photograph could be a metaphor for self-absorption or ruminati...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Yellow Golden Light, Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Late golden light transforms a dog into a graphic black shape that seems to float in magical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 and printed later, ...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Fremont Street Neon. Old Las Vegas, 1974
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974 The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and other sizes are available. Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. A unique view of The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is shot with magical golden late afternoon light shot in 197...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

East Hampton Louse Point at Sunset with Warm Colors, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The stunning natural beauty of East Hampton's Louse Point is artistically recorded by photographer Mitchell Funk in a chorus of golden browns and warm ochers. The picture is ar...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Trumpet Player: Soulful Rainbow of Color
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
Category

1980s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer by Mitchell Funk is a quintessential moment at days end. The work is signed and dated ...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Big Bubbles and the Bethesda Fountain.
Located in Miami, FL
= Big bubble blowers create alien-looking biomorphic forms that frame the winged neo-classical bronze Bethesda Fountain crowed with pigeons. It's set aga...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light 2014, Signed dated and numbered 4/15, right recto, inkjet archival print lower East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. . The work is unframed ...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattan Skyscrapers: Gold and Blue Reflections Photography
Located in Miami, FL
. Manhattan: Gold and Blue Reflections, Shot from Jersey, Manhattan monoliths are transformed into gleaming and beautiful abstract patters of blue and gold. Mitchell Funk, has bee...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical lat...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
This image of Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park was shot at magic hour. That's when the light is late in the day and skims over the surfaces of the grass and build...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Ducks in Flight with Blue water Droplets
Located in Miami, FL
The work is signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto with other sizes available, and unframed. The color of the photograph is quite subtle and will be rendered differently ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Rainbow in East Hampton with a Celebrating Flock of Birds - Magenta Sky
Located in Miami, FL
A stunning magical moment where a flock of birds participates in nature's celebration of beauty. The shape of the flock echos the arch of colors formed in the sky. The photographe...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
Located in Miami, FL
As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Telefone lines extend across the road as if the...
Category

1960s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

View of Russian Hill in Blue, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
View of a blue Russian Hill, San Francisco. This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Print...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

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

Materials

Photographic Paper

Red and Purple Tulips Flowers Petals
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.00 - Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 2/15, unframed, other sizes available Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer". He was color...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Inkjet

Child Cat
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Autumn Colors Bow Bridge with Flower Pots and Ducks in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park captured at it's most beautiful and it's most romantic. Signed dated lower right, numbered on lr recto. 3/15 printed later, unframed. other sizes available. Printed on...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Inkjet

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. ...
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1990s Impressionist Art

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Photographic Paper

Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
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1980s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Covid-19, Cherry Blossom Park Avenue. No Cars but One Lone Figure and Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. There is beauty in disaster. Underlying a seemingly picturesque springtime New York scene lurks the question - " Where's the Traffic and People." Yet...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Inkjet

Central Park Dog Walkers
Located in Miami, FL
Magical late afternoon golden light pours into the scene illuminating heads and Silhouetting figures. The intriguing arrangement of visual elements creates an unorthodox mysterious w...
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1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Tribeca in Gold, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Edward Hopper's sense of late light combined with the isolation and desolation of New York is depicted in color photography by Mitchell Funk. Golden light paints 70's New York in a m...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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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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