Walter Johannes Becker
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
People Also Browsed
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Cardboard, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Aquatint
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Paint
1880s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Vintage 1960s German Expressionist Paintings
Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Etching
Charles Joshua ChaplinLa Poésie - Etching by Charles Joshua Chaplin - Mid 19th Century, 19th Century
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Photography
Photographic Paper
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique 19th Century European Napoleon III Paintings
Paint
20th Century English Expressionist Paintings
Paint
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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Finding the Right landscape-drawings-watercolors for You
Landscape drawings and watercolors show the world through the lenses of different cultures and perspectives. They were also incredibly important for displaying natural scenes before the invention of photography.
There are many ways to effectively arrange art on your walls so that you’re maximizing your wall space. You can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of a living room or bedroom if landscape drawings and watercolors are part of the art that you choose to bring into a space.
Watercolor landscapes have a rich history dating back to ancient China, where they dominated painting genres by the late Tang dynasty. Ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and by the Renaissance, watercolors had made their way to the West and into European culture, becoming a staple of decorative art.
It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that watercolor paints became more widely available and embedded in fine arts. Despite their broad distribution today, some artists have chosen to revive the old craft of preparing their own watercolor pigments, paying homage to the medium’s roots.
The variety of brush combinations and painting methods makes watercolor landscapes some of the most stunning pieces in any collection. Find landscape drawings and watercolors on 1stDibs.