20th C Impressionist Paintings
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Masonite, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Wood, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Masonite, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Masonite, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Pastel
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Nude Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Pen
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel, Archival Paper
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pen
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pen
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil
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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 Paintings for You
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.
Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color?
On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by emerging artists and more today.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022What painting is the most important of the 20th century is largely a matter of personal opinion. Some notable works produced during the period include Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Henri Matisse's The Dance and Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist. Shop a large selection of 20th-century paintings on 1stDibs.