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John Burton Figural Oil on Canvas, 2006 "Escape"
John Burton Figural Oil on Canvas, 2006 "Escape"

John Burton Figural Oil on Canvas, 2006 "Escape"

By John Burton

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Burton has also studied at the Scottsdale Artists School were he was encouraged by his mentors; Scott Burdick, Bill Sanchez and Dan Gerhartz. Burton, who enjoys painting figurative w...

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Ultra Realist Library Still-Life Books and Candles "Little Devil in the Details"
Ultra Realist Library Still-Life Books and Candles "Little Devil in the Details"

Ultra Realist Library Still-Life Books and Candles "Little Devil in the Details"

By Ken DeWaard

Located in Soquel, CA

Upon Irving's recommendation Ken joined the acclaimed Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago, where he soon began studying with Scott Burdick as well as Dan Gerhartz. It i...

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1990s American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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"Painter's Friends" Oil on Canvas on Board 10 x 12 Still Life, unframed

"Painter's Friends" Oil on Canvas on Board 10 x 12 Still Life, unframed

By Judy Crowe

Located in Dallas, TX

She began studying with local Houston artist Lindy Daly in 1989, and since has participated in workshops with the following nationally recognized artists: Tom Browning, Scott Burdick...

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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Paintings

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Jaspreet, Oil Painting
Jaspreet, Oil Painting

Jaspreet, Oil Painting

By Scott Burdick

Located in Denver, CO

Scott Burdick's "Jaspreet" is an oil painting featuring a female in traditional costume enjoying tea.

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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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SHADY SPOT, EYGALIERES, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting

SHADY SPOT, EYGALIERES, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting

By Nancy Franke

Located in Atlanta, GA

Prominent working artists of influence are Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, and Kevin MacPherson. Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done som...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lunch in Cassis, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting
Lunch in Cassis, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting

Lunch in Cassis, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting

By Nancy Franke

Located in Atlanta, GA

Prominent working artists of influence are Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, and Kevin MacPherson. Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done som...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View from Gordes, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting
View from Gordes, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting

View from Gordes, Petite Square Framed Impressionist Painting

By Nancy Franke

Located in Atlanta, GA

Prominent working artists of influence are Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, and Kevin MacPherson. Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done som...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Softly Provencal, Medium Vertical Impressionist Provence Painting

Softly Provencal, Medium Vertical Impressionist Provence Painting

By Nancy Franke

Located in Atlanta, GA

Prominent working artists of influence are Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, and Kevin MacPherson. Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done som...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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"Welcome Home" Small Framed Impressionist Painting
"Welcome Home" Small Framed Impressionist Painting

"Welcome Home" Small Framed Impressionist Painting

By Nancy Franke

Located in Atlanta, GA

Prominent working artists of influence are Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, and Kevin MacPherson. Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done som...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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"My Girl" Small Vertical Framed Painting of Little Girl
"My Girl" Small Vertical Framed Painting of Little Girl

"My Girl" Small Vertical Framed Painting of Little Girl

By Nancy Franke

Located in Atlanta, GA

Prominent working artists of influence are Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, and Kevin MacPherson. Franke focuses on still life and figurative paintings, although she has also done som...

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"AT THE LIENZO" SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
"AT THE LIENZO" SAN ANTONIO TEXAS

"AT THE LIENZO" SAN ANTONIO TEXAS

Located in San Antonio, TX

She has studied the art of painting under the guidance of distinguished National and International instructors such as Dan Gerhartz, Quang Ho, Morgan Weistling, CW Mundy, George Stri...

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"DALMALLY CHURCH YARD" PAINTED 1999
"DALMALLY CHURCH YARD" PAINTED 1999

"DALMALLY CHURCH YARD" PAINTED 1999

Located in San Antonio, TX

Thies, Daniel Gerhartz, Rose Frantzen, Scott Burdick, Susan Lyon, Paul Mullally, Clayton Beck III, Molly Schmid, Gretchen Schmid, Judy Stach, and Casey Baugh.

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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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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.

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