Impressionist Art for Sale

Origin and characteristics of impressionism
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Timeline of impressionism

The term impressionism is derived from the Latin impressio. The "impression" that the Impressionists reproduce is that of a sunny landscape, a city scene, or colorful portraits which often show people in casual, natural postures. The painting Impression - soleil levant(1872) by French artist Claude Monet was eponymous for this art movement in the second half of the 19th century. In other words, it imparted the name "impressionism" to a diverse movement, and unified it under its banner.

The play with light and color and the dissolution of strong contours is representative of impressionist painting's modernist elements. For it is not the exact lifelike reproduction that is decisive for the impressionist style, but the impression of a landscape or an object that is evoked. In impressonist art, the viewer's interpretation of the art comes more to the fore.

The sea and the waves have always been a popular motif. Matthew Cusick knows how to reinterpret them completely new without forgetting their art-historical roots. The influence of Japonisme, which can be seen in Impressionist paintings, can also be felt with Matthew Cusick.

The most famous representatives of Impressionism are among the most highly valued on the art market today. Works by impressionist painters like Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, as well as Camille Pissaro, Auguste Rodin, Frederic Bazille, Berthe Morisot, Max Liebermann, Alfred Sisley, and the American artist Mary Cassat regularly fetch millions at auction.

This popularity can be explained by the choice of motif and the effects created by impressionist techniques. The Radical Flatness in the rendering of an impressionist landscape appears fragmentary, fleeting and in motion. Impressionist artists achieve this spontaneity through painting outdoors, or in "open air" - en plein air. Impressionists painted in rain and shine. This is how whole series like Claude Monet's famous haystacks were created.

What else have modern photo artists got to do with the impressionists of the Fin de Siècle in Paris? Quite a lot! Through the choice of subject matter, long-distance effect, cropping - and the precise observation of light and color as the most important tool - Impressionist painting had a major influence on the development of photographic technique and theory. Not only modern art history in general, but photographic history in particular is in many ways a footnote to Impressionism and Post Impressionism.

The photographic eye

The shimmering photographs of Harald Klemm remind us of a day in Monet's garden, or of the Pointillist landscapes by artist Georges Seurat. The play of color and light creates a mood that draws us directly into the action!

The influence of artist Claude Monet on Peter von Felberts are immediately evident. Where photography liberated art from the task of having to depict reality, and gave new impulses for picture details and works in series, Felbert makes them his own again. Take a close look: von Felbert's works are not paintings at all, they are photographs!

The painter Xiau-Fong Wee is clearly a modern impressionist. Instead of the daylight, pastel palette of the Impressionists, however, she uses dark tones and highlights, similar to Lesser Ury. Her paintings of San Francisco are a balance between the color palette and method of abstract impressionism, which is non-representational, and traditional impressionism, which is representational. In her choice of motifs, she is true to the Impressionists: the city and the hectic life in the metropolis are central. The work only develops its effect from a distance, as people blur to dots and strokes in an abstract method. The impression of the city and the landscape by day becomes a remotely captured painting of the big city at night.