Impressionist Interior Paintings
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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Late 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Late 19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Pastel
1920s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
1920s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Board, Oil
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Masonite, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Masonite
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
1940s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
In the late afternoon light, long shadows stretch across an amusement park as a giant swing ride whirls riders through the air. In the distance, a towering drop...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Acrylic
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Charcoal, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Linen, Oil
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Watercolor
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Yangzi Xu captures the joyful return of spring to downtown Chicago in this painting. Vibrant tulips in pinks, reds, and corals fill the foreground, softe...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
1990s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil, Board
1980s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Early 2000s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper




