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Screen
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Mixed Media
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
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Artist Pat Forbes depicts an abstract landscape with large towering structures under a murky atmosphere. "This piece reflects on the pleasures of traveling, and...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
20th Century Haitian Paintings
Canvas
Vintage 1980s Haitian Decorative Art
Canvas, Wood
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Quilts
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
Brass, Copper
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Pottery
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Music Stands
Metal
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
Sterling Silver
1970s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Offset
Antique Late 18th Century Sheraton Game Tables
Mahogany
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
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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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