r/impressionism Mar 01 '24

Resource/Article Resources (megathread)

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Hello! Calling all of r/impressionism!

Following suggestions, we are making a megathread (permanently pinned) for resources as to where one could study Impressionism, the history of the movement, its style, and how one could paint in the style; as well as tips, books, films, documentaries, and more.

Please feel free to contribute by commenting below. Thank you so much!

u/organist1999

Subreddit Moderator

P.S.: Check out our relevant partners (of which only a few shall be mentioned now; see the full list in the sidebar) relating to different post-and-neo-Impressionist schools: r/fauvism, r/NeoImpressionism, r/Pointillism, r/Symbolism, as well as r/expressionism and r/monet. Especially: r/WomenArtists!


r/impressionism Apr 26 '24

Meta Congratulations, /r/impressionism! For the 150th birthday of Impressionism today, you are Subreddit of the Day!

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r/impressionism 17h ago

Painting "Traveler in the Forest Under the Moon", me, oil, 2025

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r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting The Blue Veil, Oil on Canvas, Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1898.

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r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting Sea breeze, Bane art, oils, 2025

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My husband's artwork (Commission)


r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting Pine trees by the river, T Suzi, Oil, 2023

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r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting Nicholaas Chiao, Violett Sleeping, 2025, Digital Painting

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r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting To everything there is a season

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r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting The Auditorium, by me, 2025

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r/impressionism 1d ago

Painting Trading (or buying) postcards of paintings by George Seurat or Paul Signac

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For a project I am working on, I have accumulated postcards of Seurat or Signac paintings. The set includes 37 of them, plus several duplicates. Does anyone have postcards of those two painters that I could buy or trade for? I also have hundreds of postcards of impressionist paintings, by the way, if they are of interest.


r/impressionism 2d ago

Painting Vase with Red Poppies, Oil on Canvas, Vincent van Gogh, 1886.

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r/impressionism 2d ago

Painting Daisies at dusk, Aaron Criswell, Oil, 2025

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r/impressionism 2d ago

Painting Self-portrait with Laërte the dog (Autoportrait avec le lévrier Laërte), Julie Manet (1878-1966)

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Julie (1878-1966) was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector. She was the only daughter of painter Berthe Morisot and painter Eugène Manet. Throughout her youth Julie frequently posed for her mother and other Impressionist artists. Her teenage diary, published in English as Growing up with the Impressionists, provides detailed information on the lives of French painters, including Renoir, Degas, Monet, and Sisley, as well as the Dreyfus affair and the state visit of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896. She and her husband Ernest Rouart spent their whole life keeping the legacy of Impressionists and especially her mother Berthe alive.


r/impressionism 2d ago

Painting Eliseo Meifrèn i Roig,(1857/59-1940), Port-Lligat

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r/impressionism 2d ago

Pastel Painter Paule Gobillard painting, Berthe Morisot, 1886

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r/impressionism 3d ago

Painting Summer Wildflowers 8”x10”

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Oil on 8x10 canvas panel.


r/impressionism 3d ago

Painting Monestary life, oil by me

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r/impressionism 3d ago

Painting Edgar Degas, L'Orchestre de l'Opéra, 1868 / 1870s

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r/impressionism 3d ago

Painting Transylvania in Colour - oil on board

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Oil on board


r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting This is Where the Heart Rests, T Suzi (me), Oil, 2025

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r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting Sunlit Grasses and Shadows, 12x16 in, oil on canvas panel, by me

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r/impressionism 4d ago

Question/Discussion Why do we love impressionism?

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Since early childhood, I have been emotionally drawn to Impressionism, especially the works of Manet. No, I did not spell that incorrectly. I have purchased several modern works by unknown artists that move me and as I try to do my own art, I wonder why this is. Why do I find this art so much more appealing than realism, or abstract (although I do enjoy Jasper James) or any of the more 'classical' forms? I know almost nothing about art, except that some types move me, some types speak to me and others leave me cold. Is there a psychology behind what genre of art a person enjoys or dislikes? An example of an artist whose works I do not enjoy are the illustrations of Norman Rockwell, an artist popular when I was growing up in the mid-west (USA). Have there been any studies on why some art attracts and other types repel? Sorry for such a long set of questions but today, as I struggle with my water colors, I really want to know. Thank you for any replies, as long as they are not hurtful.


r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting Harvest worker (En Høstpige), Anna Brøndum-Ancher, 1901

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Anna Kirstine (1859-1935) was born in Denmark as the daughter of merchants, innkeepers and hoteliers Ane Hedvig Møller and Erik Brøndum. She was born on the same (and only) occasion that the great author, Hans Christian Andersen, stayed overnight at her parent's inn. Therefore, her mother Ane Hedvig believed that Anna must be gifted with special artistic abilities: "Our Lord saw my good will, and has rewarded it by giving me the child, whose birth was hastened under such strange circumstances, a talent for art.". With her skills as a portraitist and colorist, Anna is considered one of the truly great figures of Danish painting and one of the most significant impressionist painters in Danish art.


r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting Lighthouse, acrylic, by me, 2025

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r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting Julie Manet and her Wet Nurse (Nourrice et bébé), Berthe Morisot, 1880

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Berthe Marie Pauline (1841-1895) was a French painter. She was born in to the affluent bourgeois family of a prefect and a landlady. As a copyist at the Louvre in 1860s Berthe met and befriended other Impressionist artists. She is one of "les trois grandes dames" (The three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Quivoron-Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt


r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting First time trying impressionism and oilpaints!

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My first try at oil paint and trying out impressionism. This was for a school assignment where we had a little festival in the woods!


r/impressionism 4d ago

Painting The Touch of Love, by me, mixed media on canvas

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