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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: Suren Nersisyan
Winter Morning in Farms
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
With textured brushstrokes, the painting expresses the crispy morning in winter, when beautiful blue shades and sunlight on the snow together create an amazin...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Old House and Palm Trees, Midnight
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is a painting of a warm night in Los Angeles. This painting is on gallery wrapped canvas with white edges. It comes ready to hang.

About the Artis...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Washington DC, Fall Evening
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Evening fall colors in a historical part of Washington DC with beautiful architecture together look harmonic and full of nice ene...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Night Walk in Suburbs, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A peaceful night somewhere in the suburbs with warm light coming from the windows.


About the Artist
Suren is an impressionist painter eloquently capturing nature, landscapes, and cityscapes in paint. His body of work reflects several different stylistic approaches. Suren’s scenes in oil are inspired by Impressionist masters Monet and Van Gogh, while his watercolor series of flowers and birds are influenced by Eastern styles of painting and the colors of the Middle Eastern environment. Suren believes his role as an artist is to remind viewers that we all are part of the same natural universe.


Words that describe this painting: American Landscape, Suburb, American impressionism, expressionism, expressionist art, dark colors, bedroom art...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Sunny Day on The Beach, Pacific Ocean, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I contrasted the cold blue of the ocean with the warm tones of the rocks. The brushwork is expressive and textured.


About the Artist
Suren is an impressionist painter eloquently capturing nature, landscapes, and cityscapes in paint. His body of work reflects several different stylistic approaches. Suren’s scenes in oil are inspired by Impressionist masters Monet and Van Gogh, while his watercolor series of flowers and birds are influenced by Eastern styles of painting and the colors of the Middle Eastern environment. Suren believes his role as an artist is to remind viewers that we all are part of the same natural universe.


Words that describe this painting: seascape, californian landscape, El matador beach...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Summer Day, Nostalgia, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is a sunny, beautiful summer day painted from memory. Bold trees, old houses, blue skies.


About the Artist
Suren is an impressionist pai...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Roofs of Forgotten Town
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I painted this piece from sketches I did from a small Eastern European town. The old buildings and houses are highlighted through amazing texture.

Abou...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

House Finch in the Field (Vertical)
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This artwork is from my Birds and Flowers series in which I develop harmonic composition depicting birds and plants. Inspired by traditional Japanese and Chinese ink paintings, I try to create unique compositions. This piece is on heavyweight paper and will need a frame for display.

About the Artist
Suren is an impressionist painter eloquently capturing nature, landscapes, and cityscapes in paint. His body of work reflects several different stylistic approaches. Suren’s scenes in oil are inspired by Impressionist masters Monet and Van Gogh, while his watercolor series of flowers and birds are influenced by Eastern styles of painting and the colors of the Middle Eastern environment. Suren believes his role as an artist is to remind viewers that we all are part of the same natural universe.

House Finch...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Hazy Day on Ocean, Laguna Beach
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Soft, hazy light and beautiful rocks surrounded by the energy of the ocean looks very calm and relaxing together. I used textured brushstrokes to indicate th...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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