Old World Paintings Of Sheep
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
19th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings
Oil, Panel
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Paintings
Canvas
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Animal Paintings
Oil
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1880s Victorian Nude Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso
Late 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1870s Old Masters Animal Prints
Intaglio, Etching, Drypoint, Laid Paper
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Paper, Gouache
1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Paper, Gouache
Antique 19th Century French Romantic Paintings
Gesso, Fabric, Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Wood Panel, Oil
1870s Victorian Animal Paintings
Wood Panel, Oil
1870s Victorian Animal Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Masonite, Oil, Paper
Late 19th Century Dutch School Interior Paintings
Watercolor
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
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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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