Impressionism

This painting of Hong Kong from 1900 by Kuroda Seiki seems to be at the intersection of west and east in terms of style. On the one hand the painting is highly impressionistic, with its clouded and merging colours and shades, and on the other hand it belongs to the Asian traditional genre of landscape […]

Carolus-Duran paints a portrait of Édouard Manet, his friend, and fellow artist, in 1880 in a loose style, especially the background and details such as Manet’s beard and cravat. Duran was an influential artist and mentor in Third Republic France. The style is atypical of the artist and would seem to approach that of the

Portrait of Emily Warren Roebling is an 1896 portrait painting by French painter Carolus-Duran. Portrait of Emily Warren Roebling Analysis In 1896 Carolus-Duran painted Emily Warren Roebling, the engineer responsible for the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband fell ill. Carolus-Duran chose to paint her full-length in this work – a fact that

George Bellows’ The Bridge, Blackwell’s Island depicts spectators watching, as we do, the spectacle of a boat scything through a lively current on the river under an unpredictable sky. Bellows, an American modernist, uses thick paint to show the unfathomability of the body of water especially, and the gigantic size of the bridge. This picture

Young Lady in 1866 is a portrait painting that French painter Édouard Manet created in the same year that it is set, in 1866. This work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in the United States. Analysis of Manet’s Young Lady in 1866 Also referred to as Lady with a

Here Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the French Impressionist, paints a girl crocheting, treating the girl’s blonde hair with a great brightness just as he does the cascade of thread in her hands in an otherwise darkened room. Painted in 1875, The girl is absorbed in her task which distances her from us but also she is close

Portrait de fillette is an 1879 painting by Mary Cassatt, the American painter living in Paris who operated at the height of the trend of Impressionism. Here she exhibits a similar concern with loose and quick brushwork. Despite this, she also succeeds in a true likeness and Realism of expression in the little girl who

This 1879 portrait is of Thérèse Berard, the young niece of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s patron Paul Berard, a diplomat, and banker. Renoir often spent the summer at Berard’s house in Normandy and painted pictures to decorate the house. The background of the work is obscured to focus our attention on the girl’s expression which seems to

The Bath (Girl Arranging Her Hair) Impressionist in style, as is common for French artist Berthe Morisot who painted this work in 1886. The girl is active both in the use of her arms to arrange her hair and in her gaze outward to the viewer. Her flesh tones seem to resonate throughout the picture

At the Concert, a Box at the Opera we have French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting two young girls in formal dress at their box at the opera. Finished in 1880, The hair of the girl on the left who looks out at us is echoed in color by the auburn background fabric, while the hair

Thames at Hampton Court is a very Impressionist work of 1874 by English painter Alfred Sisley, showing a concern with light effects and a certain divisionism of colour, i.e. the placement of individual brushstrokes of different colours alongside each other. The scene here takes place in Richmond upon Thames, 12 miles South-West of London on

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1899 Self-Portrait, was painted in the French Impressionist style. Analysis of Renoir’s Self-Portrait Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s self-portrait, here in his fifties, turns his face obliquely away from the viewer while maintaining his gaze towards us. This could allude to the process of painting a portrait, as the painter needs to look over and back

The Family Reunion is a large portrait painting by French Impressionist artist Frédéric Bazille in 1867 depicting a number of members of Bazille’s extended family. Analysis of The Family Reunion Frédéric Bazille Bazille was born to a wealthy Protestant family in 1841 and began his artistic career in the atelier or studio of the Academic

Rue Saint-Honoré is one of 15 pictures painted by Camille Pissarro in the winter of 1897-8 from his hotel window in Paris. It is remarkable for its impressionistic depiction of the people, carriages and buildings; and for the brilliant glossy application of paint that shows the street and square sodden with rain. Rue Saint-Honoré is in

Luis Jiménez Aranda’s Lady at the Paris Exposition shows a woman on a balcony while at the rear is a section of the Eiffel Tower, the centrepiece of the Universal Exposition in Paris of 1889. The joviality of the colours of the woman’s stylish ensemble contrast markedly with her demeanour and expression which reveal a

Here we have Madame Manet on a Blue Sofa with an active and perhaps even impatient gaze, she looks out at the painter, Edouard Manet and the viewer. This together with the gloved hand crooked in her hip draw attention to the act of waiting – whether it be the sitter awaiting the artist, the

April (The Green Gown) was painted Childe Hassam towards the end of his life in 1920 and captures the contemporary vogue for Japonisme, the artistic style based on the art of Japan. This influence we see in the reclining woman’s oriental dress and the screen in the background which shows birds and plants. The overall

Alfred Sisley’s A Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne presents a bridge on the left of the painting looming over boaters, and shading a relaxing couple. Painted in 1872, there is a counterpoint between the Impressionist painting of the water and the matter-of-fact painting of the buildings to the rear of the picture. Alfred Sisley’s A Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

Frederick Childe Hassam was part of an American cohort of artists working in France in the latter 19th century where he painted Promenade at Sunset, Paris in 1889. This work is done quite impressionistically but such things as facial features and certain details like the street lamps are clearly discernible. The shimmering watery effects of

Here Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley depicts a street in Louveciennes, a city in Central-North France frequented by Impressionists such as Sisley and Camille Pissarro. Sisley was a British citizen who remained in France for most of his life. In his typical Impressionist style of patches of color advancing and receding, he painted this 1878 work