19th Century Dutch Impressionist Paintings
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
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1830s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Antique 19th Century German Dutch Colonial Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Antique 19th Century French French Provincial Paintings
Canvas
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
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19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
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1830s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
19th Century Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
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Board, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Paper
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Panel, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
1990s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Crayon, Paper
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A Close Look at impressionist Art
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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