Sally Bookman
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Prints
Paper, Printer's Ink, Offset
1990s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
People Also Browsed
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1960s Modern Figurative Photography
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Canvas, Wood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Paper
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
1980s Art Deco Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1940s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Laid Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Ink, Watercolor
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Woodcut
1980s Minimalist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
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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