Mary Cassatt – The Boating Party – 1893-94 The canvases painted by Cassatt in the 1890s are the most interesting of his career, and when the group of Impressionists dispersed, Cassatt remained in contact with several of them, becoming a model for many young American painters. This is a work of great importance in the artist’s career, since, in part because of Degas’ intervention, it allowed the artist to exhibit with the Impressionists in 1879. Mary Cassatt was born in Pennsylvania, but lived much of her life in France, where she was invited by Edgar Degas to exhibit her work with the French Impressionists. MARY CASSATT: “Petite fille dans un fauteuil bleu”, 1878. Mary Cassat – Petite fille dans un fauteuil bleu – 1878 The painting was auctioned in 2000 for $14.3 million, then a record for a work by Caillebotte. Private collection.Īn extraordinary cityscape painting, in which a man in an arrogant pose surveys Haussmann’s splendorous Paris through a balcony. GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: “L’homme au balcon, boulevard Haussmann” 1880. Gustave Caillebotte – LHomme au balcon boulevard Haussmann – 1880 Nevertheless, this is one of the best depictions of 19th century Paris ever painted. “L’Évenement” commented that “the drawing is of a certain quality, but Caillebotte seems to have forgotten to include the rain”. This is Caillebotte’s most famous and ambitious work, exhibited at the Third Impressionist Exhibition at Rue Le Peletier, where it was not well received by mostr critics.
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: “Paris Street, Rainy Day (rain effect)” 1877. Zola, who was quite fond of Caillebotte, described it as “an anti-artistic painting, clean, icy and bourgeois, by dint of exactitude.” Gustave Caillebotte – Rue de Paris temps de pluie – 1877 This work exemplifies like no other the astonishment that Caillebotte could have caused among those attending the first Impressionist exhibitions. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.Ĭaillebotte combines an almost photographic approach with a composition marked by a strange and vertiginous perspective, a constant feature in his early works.
GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: “Les raboteurs (The Floor Scraper s)”, 1876. Gustave Caillebotte – Les raboteurs – 1875 One of the distinctive characteristics of her work is the great time spent in the preparation and execution of the paintings, as opposed to the speed and spontaneity of many of her contemporaries. Paris, Musée du Petit Palaisīracquemond is possibly the most unknown of “les trois grandes dames” of Impressionism (as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Bracquemond herself are usually known). MARIE BRACQUEMOND: “Sur la terrasse à Sèvres”, 1880. Marie Bracquemond – Auf der Terrasse in Sevres – 1880 “The Artist’s Studio” is considered his masterpiece, in which we can find important figures of the impressionist art, such as Monet, Renoir, Manet, Emile Zola and Edmond Maître. Musée d’Orsay, Paris.įriend of Monet, Sisley and Manet, and born into a wealthy family, Bazille is the tragic figure of impressionism, died in the Franco-Prussian War when he was only 28 years old. Frederic Bazille – Latelier de Bazille – 1870įRÉDERIC BAZILLE: “The artist’s studio (Bazille’s room) 9 rue de la Condamine” – 1870. These impressionist paintings are listed following the alphabetical order of the name of their author. The paintings are shown in alphabetical order following the name of their author. Without the intention of being an in-depth study of Impressionism, but rather a tribute to it, and an invitation to discover more about the artists who developed it, we present here 50 masterpieces of this fascinating artistic period. Impressionist art seen through 50 paintingsĬlick to Tweet 50 impressionist paintings If we wanted, perhaps falling into a riskily simplistic purism, to give a list of figures representing pure and essential impressionism, without interference from other movements, such a list would end up being reduced to very few names: Claude Monet -the true Michelangelo of impressionism-, Camille Pissarro -the great chronicler of rural life-, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley… In any case, during the zenith of the movement, many artists contributed to the development of Impressionism.
PAINT IMPRESSIONIST STYLE SERIES
When speaking of Impressionism, it is common to make the mistake of ascribing to this movement a series of painters who had nothing or almost nothing to do with it – Henri Rousseau, Odilon Redon – and others who, although they began attracted by Impressionism, soon separated from it, like Paul Gauguin or Paul Cézanne. But, as an image is worth a thousand words, has decided to showcase 50 paintings to resume the very best of this fascinating Art movement. No artistic period has been as commented or discussed as Impressionism.
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