Impressionist Ballet
1980s Figurative Paintings
Oil
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1980s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil, Board
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Pastel, Oil
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist More Art
Acrylic
1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Post-Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Oil
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1940s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
Frank HillThe Red Dancer - Mid-Late 20th Century Figurative Elegant Ballet by Frank Hill, Circa 1970
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Magazine Paper
2010s Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Magazine Paper
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Board, Oil
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Board, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Pencil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
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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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