Valery Kosorukov
1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
People Also Browsed
Vintage 1970s American Contemporary Art
Acrylic, Canvas
Mid-20th Century French Belle Époque Paintings
Pine, Paint
20th Century German Other Porcelain
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Latvian Modern Photography
Canvas
1960s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
Vintage 1970s Russian Posters
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Late 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Marble, Bronze
1970s Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Plaster
1990s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Canvas, Wood
1970s Pop Art Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Decorative Art
Paper
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Early 2000s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
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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