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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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Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Beautiful Garden"
Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Beautiful Garden"

Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Beautiful Garden"

Located in New York, NY

Title: Beautiful Garden Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 22 x 18 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2011 Artist:...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"CALIFORNIA POPPIES" FRAMED 33 X 39 CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE
"CALIFORNIA POPPIES" FRAMED 33 X 39 CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE

"CALIFORNIA POPPIES" FRAMED 33 X 39 CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE

By Gary Ray

Located in San Antonio, TX

Gary Ray 1952 California Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 33 x 39 Medium: Oil on Board Dated 2004 "California Poppies" Biography Gary Ray 1952 Gary Ray ...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Hong Zhi Landscape Original Oil Painting "Populus 1"
Hong Zhi Landscape Original Oil Painting "Populus 1"

Hong Zhi Landscape Original Oil Painting "Populus 1"

Located in New York, NY

Title: Populus 1 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 15.5 x 11.5inches Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Hualin Li Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Guilin View 2"
Hualin Li Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Guilin View 2"

Hualin Li Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Guilin View 2"

Located in New York, NY

Title: Guilin View 2 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27.25 x 19.5inches Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Hualin Li Contemporary Art Original Oil On Canvas "Farmland"
Hualin Li Contemporary Art Original Oil On Canvas "Farmland"

Hualin Li Contemporary Art Original Oil On Canvas "Farmland"

Located in New York, NY

Title: Farmland Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.5 x 27.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This paintin...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Yellow Winds II, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 36"
"Yellow Winds II, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 36"

"Yellow Winds II, " Framed Limited Edition Giclee Print, 36" x 36"

By Ken Elliott

Located in Westport, CT

This abstract landscape limited edition print by Ken Elliott features a forest-scape with bright yellow tree leaves which are mirrored by the yellow foreground, all of which is complemented by the light violet shadows between the trees and light...

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2010s Impressionist Art

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Digital, Giclée

Hualin Li Contemporary Art Original Oil On Canvas "Walk On A Small Path"
Hualin Li Contemporary Art Original Oil On Canvas "Walk On A Small Path"

Hualin Li Contemporary Art Original Oil On Canvas "Walk On A Small Path"

Located in New York, NY

Title: Walk On A Small Path Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27.5 x 19.5inches Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition....

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Sunflowers" Oil cm. 99 x 90
"Sunflowers" Oil cm. 99 x 90

"Sunflowers" Oil cm. 99 x 90

By Georgij Moroz

Located in Torino, IT

Yellow,Sunflowers,green,russian, Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) 1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina. 1949-56: he began artistic stud...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"The Beach at Saint-Malo" oil painting at historic French Port, blue sky and sea
"The Beach at Saint-Malo" oil painting at historic French Port, blue sky and sea

"The Beach at Saint-Malo" oil painting at historic French Port, blue sky and sea

By Marc Dalessio

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

"The Beach at Saint-Malo" is a plein air painting depicting a Brittany, France. A historic port-city along the English Channel, Saint Malo was designed with Gothic and Romanesque str...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

"TRAIL TO EAGLE NEST" WESTERN SNOW COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA NICE! FRAME 32 X 46
"TRAIL TO EAGLE NEST" WESTERN SNOW COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA NICE! FRAME 32 X 46

"TRAIL TO EAGLE NEST" WESTERN SNOW COWBOY ARTISTS OF AMERICA NICE! FRAME 32 X 46

By Melvin Warren

Located in San Antonio, TX

Melvin Warren (1920 - 1995) Texas Artist Image Size: 22 x 36 Frame Size: 32 x 46 Medium: Oil Dated 1987 "Trail To Eagle Nest" Western Snow Scene Biography Melvin Warren (1920 - 1995) Melvin Charles Warren (March 19, 1920-August 4, 1995) For western art to achieve the distinction of fine art, it must first satisfy an artistic criteria and only then deal with the particularity of western subject matter. Melvin Warren understands this concept. His work is an accomplished artistic statement that also presents images which are faithful to western reality. Warren was born in California in 1920 and lived in Arizona and New Mexico before coming to Texas at the age of fourteen. He has seen the beauty and felt the lure of the Southwest and it stimulated his boyhood desire to be an artist. After service in World War II, Warren entered Texas Christian University and received a degree in fine arts. During the day, he worked in the best tradition of commercial art work, and in the evenings he painted out the western fantasies that crowded his mind. These paintings and the process of creating them encouraged Warren to seek a gallery outlet. The subtle sensitivity to his subject matter and an obvious control of the technical elements of painting made his work readily acceptable to a broad range of collectors. He became a special favorite of Lyndon Johnson who ultimately acquired many Warren oils. Melvin C. Warren is buried at Clifton Memorial Park, Clifton, Bosque County, Texas. The artist was born in Los Angeles, California in 1920. He died in Clifton, Texas in 1995. The artist lived as a child on ranches throughout California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. He served in the Air Force during WWII. Warren earned a degree in Fine Art from Texas Christian University in 1952 and also studied under Samuel Ziegler. His palette emphasizes earth tones -browns, reds, yellows. His subject matter emphasizes the history of the West - cattle trails and frontier forts. He was a member of the Cowboy Artists...

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1990s Impressionist Art

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Oil

"CRASHING WAVES" GALVESTON SEASCAPE
"CRASHING WAVES" GALVESTON SEASCAPE

"CRASHING WAVES" GALVESTON SEASCAPE

By Paul Schumann

Located in San Antonio, TX

Paul Schumann 1876-1946 Galveston Artist Size: 9 x 12 Frame: 13.75 x 16.75 Medium: Oil "Crashing Waves" Paul R. Schumann was born in Reichersdorf in the German state of Saxony in 1876, one of four children of Albert F. Schumann and Mina Clara Zincke. Only he and his brother Albert Otto survived infancy. The family emigrated to the United States in 1879 and settled in Galveston, Texas, where he lived until his death. Schumann evinced an early interest in art and received encouragement from the superintendent of the Galveston Public Schools. He studied painting with local painter Julius Stockfleth...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Male Acrobat, Impressionist Lithograph by Auguste Rodin
Male Acrobat, Impressionist Lithograph by Auguste Rodin

Male Acrobat, Impressionist Lithograph by Auguste Rodin

By Auguste Rodin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Male Acrobat, Year: 1902, Medium: Lithograph on Japon, signed in the plate, Image Size: 9 x 8 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Refe...

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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

"BLUE AND GOLD" BLUEBONNET

"BLUE AND GOLD" BLUEBONNET

By Maureen Tarazon

Located in San Antonio, TX

Maureen Tarazon (1934-) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 24 x 30 Medium: Oil "Blue & Gold" Bluebonnet Biography Maureen Tarazon (1934-Present) Maureen (Mrs. Louis T...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"RIVER BEND" OIL ON CANVAS APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE
"RIVER BEND" OIL ON CANVAS APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE

"RIVER BEND" OIL ON CANVAS APPLIED BY PALETTE KNIFE

By Jose Vives-Atsara

Located in San Antonio, TX

Jose Vives-Atsara (1919-2004) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 25 x 28.75 Medium: Oil on Canvas Applied by Palette Knife "River Bend" Biography Jose Vives-Atsara (1919-2004) His list of Pallbearers says it all. They were not just buyers of his art they were some of his closest friends. Pallbearers: E. Glenn Biggs, James M. Cavender, III, Tom C. Frost, Jr., James W. Gorman, Jr., George B. Irish, Joseph R. Krier, Robert L. Mooney and H. Bartell Zachry, Jr. Jose Vives-Atsara was born April 13, 1919, in Villafranca del Penedes near Barcelona, Spain. A native Spaniard, he developed a love of painting at an early age, and by age 11 had committed himself to becoming an artist. He studied at Colegio de San Ramon and had his first one-person show at age 14. The Spanish Civil interrupted his idyllic young life as he was forced to serve in the Communist Army, and then was imprisoned, suffering many hardships. Soon after the war he married Emilia Hill Domenech, and in 1947 set out to move with his wife and child aboard a tramp steamer to the United States. Unfortunately, immigration quotas did not allow them to move directly to the United States, and it was eight years before they achieved that goal. During this interim before obtaining temporary visas, he and his family lived first, in Caracas, Venezuela and then in Mexico City, Mexico. The family settled in San Antonio, Texas, where he had made friends on a previous visit. He and his wife and children gained citizenship in time for their first Christmas in the United States. He became such an exemplary immigrant citizen that officials of the U.S. District Court for the Western District Court regularly invited him to share his thoughts and advice for living in America with newly naturalized citizens Vives-Atsara also developed a close relationship with the Incarnate Word College, becoming, over the years, both a professor of art, and Artist in Residence. As a painter, he depicted many local scenes including San Antonio missions and the San Antonio River. For special guests such as Pope John Paul II, heads of state, and royalty from foreign countries, he was commissioned to provide paintings as gifts. His paintings were also commissioned for Frost Bank and the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. For his vibrant oil paintings, he used only nine colors, mixed in a variety of ways. They have been described as both realistic and impressionistic. "Vives-Atsara believed that art is a reflection of the artist's soul, if this is true; his paintings reflect a beautiful, bright spirit." (Richardson) Jose Vives-Atsara died in San Antonio on January 13, 2004 and is buried there in Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum. Jose Vives-Atsara was born in Vilafranca del Panades in the Catalonian region of Spain on April 30, 1919. As a small boy he loved to sketch with pencil and paper. He began painting at the age of eleven. His first one-man show came at the ripe old age of fourteen. From that time on, painting has been his love and his way of life. Jose studied art at Saint Raymond College and School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He is quick to admit that his most inspirational teacher has been nature itself. Mr. Vives-Atsara came to San Antonio in 1956 where he has established his art career. His use of a palette knife in painting allows him to blend rich pure pigments to achieve his goal of creating a powerful statement of color directly on the canvas. This style is intended to produce works that are distinctively 'Vives-Atsara'. Vives-Atsara is represented in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Spain; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas; His Royal Highness Juan Carlos...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"HEAVY GRAZER" CATTLE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
"HEAVY GRAZER" CATTLE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY

"HEAVY GRAZER" CATTLE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY

Located in San Antonio, TX

Chuck Mauldin Born 1949 Fredericksburg Artist Size: 24 x 36 Frame: 32 x 44 Medium: Oil "Heavy Grazer" Cattle, Texas Hill Country A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings. Workshops with Charles Sovek...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"WOMAN AND CHILD" TEXAS BLACK FOLK ARTIST
"WOMAN AND CHILD" TEXAS BLACK FOLK ARTIST

"WOMAN AND CHILD" TEXAS BLACK FOLK ARTIST

By Leon Collins

Located in San Antonio, TX

Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 36 x 24 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas 2024 "Woman and Child" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown "The inspiration ...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"LAZY AFTERNOON" ON THE RIVER FRAMED 24 X 30
"LAZY AFTERNOON" ON THE RIVER FRAMED 24 X 30

"LAZY AFTERNOON" ON THE RIVER FRAMED 24 X 30

By John Austin Hanna

Located in San Antonio, TX

John Austin Hanna Born 1942 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 24 x 30 Medium: Oil "Lazy Afternoon" Biography John Austin Hanna Born 1942 John Austin Hanna - Frede...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"TRACTOR TIRE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BARNS AND BLUEBONNETS

"TRACTOR TIRE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BARNS AND BLUEBONNETS

Located in San Antonio, TX

Chuck Mauldin Born 1949 Fredericksburg Artist Size: 14 x 18 Frame: 19 x 23 Medium: Oil "Tractor Tire" Texas Hill Country Barn & Bluebonnets A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings. Workshops with Charles Sovek...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Venice Rialto, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud
Venice Rialto, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud

Venice Rialto, Impressionist Lithograph by Wayne Ensrud

By Wayne Ensrud

Located in Long Island City, NY

Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Venice Rialto, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: AP 300, Image Size: 25.5 x 18 inches, Size: 28.5 in. x ...

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1980s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

"THAT WHICH REMAINS" REIGONALIST LITHIOGRAPH Texas  DeForrest JUDD 1942
"THAT WHICH REMAINS" REIGONALIST LITHIOGRAPH Texas  DeForrest JUDD 1942

"THAT WHICH REMAINS" REIGONALIST LITHIOGRAPH Texas DeForrest JUDD 1942

By DeForrest Judd

Located in San Antonio, TX

Deforrest Judd (1916 - 1993) Dallas Artist Image Size: 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 Frame Size: 17 x 20.25 Medium: Lithograph 6 of 7 Dated 1942 "That Which Remains" Regionalist Biography Deforrest...

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1940s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

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