French impressionist painters

Today’s urban & travel painters owe much to the Impressionists. This article offers tips to modern painters about how to implement more of this style into your travel pieces.

Modern-day French Impressionist, Valerie Collymore shares her Three Tips to Paint Like a French Impressionist

Henri-Jean Guillaume Henri Martin (1860-1943) was a French Painter. Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1917, he is known for his early 1920s work on the walls of the Salle de l'Assemblée Générale, where the members of the Conseil d'État meet in the Palais-Royal in Paris.

We all know and love Pierre-Auguste Renoir as a preeminent painter of people, but often overlook his landscapes. This is a mistake for, as Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 illustrates, the artist originally developed his superbly innovative color palette and loose brushwork in the freedom of the outdoors.

In Woman with a Parasol in a Garden Renoir’s language is wholly impressionistic: in a setting lacking a visible horizon, the flowers and shrubs are created with tiny dabs of colour, providing a constant interweaving of textures around the two small figures. The woman, whose parasol shades her from the sun, stands close to the man as he leans down, perhaps to pick a flower, hinting at an intimate relationship. Contrary to what one may think, this canvas was not painted in the countryside but…

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Impressionism changed the way that artists paint and paved the way for contemporary art. Here are the most famous Impressionist paintings that revolutionized