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Famous Paintings of the French Impressionists

If you are an art lover or a student of art, a visit to a major art museum is definitely a must. Visiting an art gallery would certainly show at least a famous painting of one or more artists and you could spend hours, and even days studying the masterpieces of many famous artists. You could find more than inspiration from a famous painting of noted artists such as Vincent van Gogh, impressionist Claude Monet, as well as famous post-impressionist artists such as Paul Gauguin as well as silhouettist, John Miers. In fact, the successful Broadway musical "Sunday in the Park With George" was inspired by a famous painting by pointillist Georges Seurat titled "A Sunday on the Island of Grande Jatte."

 

The French Impressionist School of Art

There are also many types of a famous painting of the French impressionist school of art that are presently very popular in Europe and the romantic aspect of impressionism emanates from the stories of great struggle against famous Academic painters.

Famous paintings of the impressionist school appealed to the bourgeois tastes and this was ascribed to the fact that the techniques used were easy to digest as well as the subjects being rather inoffensive. A famous painting of the impressionist art form was often made by Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and John Constable while a famous painting of the post-impressionist era can be found in the works of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne.

To begin with, the impressionist artist had to struggle to find markets and many were forced to live from hand-to-mouth. Some impressionist artists whose famous paintings later were critically received even resorted to a more Academic style in the hope that it would attract more buyers. Cezanne left impressionism hugely disappointed that his works of impressionism had failed to make a dent and were not durable like the art of museums.

However, a Paris art dealer named Paul Durand-Ruel did, as early as 1870, recognizes greatness in impressionism and bought as well as sold and promoted impressionist paintings during that period. In the 1880s as well as 90s, the world recognized the impressionist art to be worthy and these later became famous paintings that were avidly collected by American collectors that helped to keep several artists in business.

Such is the worth of a famous painting that the very same painting that one paid a meager fifty francs for, twenty-five years later, were fetching the owner as much as fifty thousand francs. The very same renegade impressionist works of art had now found favor with even art connoisseurs and the speculative skills of bourgeois collectors later fetched them handsome profits, thanks to the later popularity of these famous paintings of impressionist artists.

Also, the appealing colors, spontaneity of expression as well as freshness of the impressionist art gave the world some very noteworthy as well as a famous painting that has opened the window to these joyous pieces of art that have been hugely appreciated in the years that have passed since they were first created.

Find a local art museum in a major city and plan a visit. Some of the larger art museums are free. Here you will find famous paintings of the world's most talented artists. You will see paintings in oil, watercolor, acrylic paints and more. It can provide inspiration and creativity and will cause you to look at paintings in a whole new light.

 
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