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Impressionist Art

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

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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Style: Impressionist
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Artist: Richard Szkutnik
Parking Entry, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Denver cityscape oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Sign...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Waterland, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Farm by the Hills, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Road Work, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting is about road workers original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to H...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Less Traveled Road, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original landscape contemporary impressionism en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the ar...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Colorful Rainbow with Flock of Birds in East Hampton, Symbolic of Togetherness
Located in Miami, FL
A densely packed flock of birds fly over a beach in East Hampton while a magnificent rainbow serves as a backdrop. The tight formation of the flock of birds symbolizes unity and to...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

In The Canyon, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Afternoon Painting, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Underground Garage, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original oil painting on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Bob s Atomic Burgers, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
original oil on canvas paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist ::...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Road to Roxborough, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by t...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Rest Area, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Original en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed:...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Flower Garden, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist ::...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

10 September 2019, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original botanical oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Ye...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Broadway Bridge, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original cityscape en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

RTD Stop, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Denver Cityscape original en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Han...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Gold Mine, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
" Gold Mine" original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Read...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

RTD Bridge, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Cityscape en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Spring Snow, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint after Spring snow :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Color Photography Abstraction of Park Bench in Central Park - Brooklyn Museum
Located in Miami, FL
A simple park bench acts as inspiration for an early example of semi-abstraction in color photography. Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk waits for "magic hour" light to ill...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Indonesia #17, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Indonesia village original oil on panel paint in contemporary impressionism style :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #10, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
village architecture oil on panel painting :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #19, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
painting Indonesia village, original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang:...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #12, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Indonesia garden original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Sign...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #14, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Indonesia tropical fores original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #13, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
farm land in Indonesia original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #16, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Indonesia architecture and forest original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready t...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Fruita, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in Fruita , Colorado :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Re...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Indonesia #9, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
park entry original oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Ye...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Wolf Creek Pass, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel paint in Colorado :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Ha...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Kissing Couple, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil on panel :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed:...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Book Cliffs Storm, Painting, Oil on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
original en plein air oil painting on panel paint in Colorado National Monument :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Statue of Liberty New York Harbor at Sunset with Green Light
Located in Miami, FL
A vibrant orange sunset silhouettes the iconic Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In the foreground, a partly out-of-focus green street light occupies the top half of the composi...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sunbathers Miami Beach
Located in Miami, FL
People are reduced to patters when rows of sun worshipers are caught with a 105 mm lens. Signed and dated lower right Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Snow Abstract Architecture, Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City snowstorm allows Street Photographer Mitchell Funk to transform facades of Upper Eastside walkups into a stunning impressionist cityscape. Monochromatic grays are pun...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical late...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Light on 1970s Road - Street Photography: Literally
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. At a time when most color photographers were just pointing cameras and snapping images mostly during boring mid-day light, Mitchell Funk was innovatin...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Impressionist Snow Storm - Bethesda Fountain Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow blankets Bethesda Fountain and simplifies the landscape so that only a few sick-figure people dot the blue on the blue-white ground. The one figure with a red coat acts ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
:ate golden light transforms a dog into a graphic black shape that seems to float in magical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 Printed later, other...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York City Early Morning Light, Yellows and Gold ( Color Photography )
Located in Miami, FL
For over 50 years pioneering color photographer Mitchell Funk has been documenting the life of New York City. Funk's central preoccupation is recording the beauty of the visual worl...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Nude, Bikini Rooftop
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, dated, numbered lower right recto. 3/15 printed later, unframed, other size available
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Central Park South bursts in Autumn Colors Yellows and Soft Gentle Browns
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park shows us its true colors and they are spectacular. Vermont you have competition. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas Neon , 1974, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974 The work is signed, dated number lower right 3/15. It's printed later, unframed and other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans. S...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sabrett Hot Dog Vendors, Times Square, Golden Light, Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A pushcart street vendor selling hot dogs is somehow transformed into something bigger. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene in extreme golden light. As a result, ...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Noble Lion at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available Pr...
Category

1980s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Bow Bridge Central Park New York City in Spring
Located in Miami, FL
Idyllic late afternoon moment where soft light brings out the delicate colors of early spring in Center Park. Signed, Dated, number Lower left 4/15 recto, unframed, other sizes ava...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet

Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
Located in Miami, FL
Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974 The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and other sizes are available. Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship - Impressionist Misty Blue
Located in Miami, FL
One of the defining characteristics of Mitchell Funk's work is how he shoots with light. In "Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship," Funk takes light into a new realm and in doing so...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes. Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk strikes a fine balance between abstraction and representation in this optically pleasing color photograph. The sky turns pink magenta as waves cras...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Autumn Colors Bow Bridge with Flower Pots and Ducks in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park captured at it's most beautiful and it's most romantic. Signed dated lower right, numbered on lr recto. 3/15 printed later, unframed. other sizes available. Printed on...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Big Bubbles and the Bethesda Fountain.
Located in Miami, FL
= Big bubble blowers create alien-looking biomorphic forms that frame the winged neo-classical bronze Bethesda Fountain crowed with pigeons. It's set aga...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Sledding in Central Park Snow
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Dogs are Part of the Landscape of Our Lives
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the pavement of a Manhattan basketball court. The intense gaze of a dog at attention punctuates a complex interplay of shadows and surface detail of lines ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The classic view of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive with reflections is captured by veteran Color Photographer Mithcell Funk. The image overflows with soft bleeding colors that melt into...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974 The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category

1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art Paintings/style/impressionist/?creator=richard-szkutnik paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Richard Szkutnik, Iryna Kastsova, and Mitchell Funk. Frequently made by artists working with Oil Paint, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Impressionist art, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $225 and tops out at $7,200, while the average work sells for $1,423.

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