Wachtel Marion
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
Early 1900s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Cardboard, Oil
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Illustration Board
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Linen, Oil
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Antique 19th Century English Paintings
Paint, Giltwood
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Masonite, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
1920s Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
1930s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
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20th Century American Paintings
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, 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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