In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of painters of the early 1900's, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo-impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of Cézanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post-impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.
Various personal styles of painting by French artists developed in reaction to the "formless and aloof" quality of Impressionist painting in the late 1800s; Concerned with the significance of form, symbols, expressiveness and psychological intensity. They can be separated into 2 groups the expressionists (Gaugin and Van Gogh) and formalists (Cezanne and Seurat).
A general term applied to various styles of painting that developed from 1880 to 1900 in reaction to the Impressionists formlessness and indifference to subject matter. Post-Impressionist painters were concerned with the significance of form, symbols, expressiveness, and psychological intensity. These concerns have continued to engross twentieth-century artists. The post-Impressionists were broadly separated into two groups - the Expressionists such as Gauguin and van Gogh and the formalists such as Cezanne and Seurat.
a style of art originating in France near the turn of the 20th century that borrowed the Impressionists' concern with color and light, but gave more emphasis to form, line, and symbolic content.
A general term applied to various personal styles of painting by French artists (or artists living in France) that developed from about 1885 to 1900 in reaction to what these artists saw as the somewhat formless and aloof quality of Impressionist painting. Post-Impressionist painters were concerned with the significance of form, symbols, expressiveness, and psychological intensity. They can be broadly separated into two groups, expressionists, such as Gauguin and Van Gogh, and formalists, such as Cezanne and Seurat.
Style of art that immediately followed the Impressionists in France. Cezanne was a leader of this style which stressed more substantial subjects and methods than those used by the Impressionists.
The name applied to the style of a few artists at the end of the nineteenth century who sought to break away from the Impressionists and restore formal organization, decorative unity, and expressive meaning to art. The leaders in this movement were Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh.
The term generally relating to the paintings of four artists, Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, and Seurat from about 1875 to 1900; they accepted the impressionists' use of light with bright colors and conspicuous panhandling but rejected the casual composition used by the impressionists.
A broad term for the work of western European artists who reacted against impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The widely differing styles of Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat are post-impressionist.
An art movement that immediately followed Impressionism, showing a greater emphasis on structure and form while rejecting naturalism. Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Gauguin are examples.
Evolved from impressionism, it embraced new formalist and expressionist concerns: flat, abstract planes, clearly defined linear contours, and intense colors. The period saw new modes of expressing meaning through symbolic devices, such as suggestion, allusion, and analogy. Influenced by Oriental sources: Japanese, Persian, Egyptian, Oceanic art. Leading figures: Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh.
A general term applied to various personal styles of painting by French artists (or artists living in France) concerned with the significance of form, symbols, expressiveness and psychological intensity. It developed from about 1885 to 1900 in reaction to what these artists saw as the somewhat formless and aloof quality of Impressionist painting.
A French art movement following on from Impressionism with a greater concern for form and characterised by a more expressive use of color. Important Post-Impressionists include Paul Gaugin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne.
Post-Impressionism is a term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1914, to describe the development of European art since Monet. John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin (1956): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism (1946), and pointed out that a "subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period"John Rewald 1978, p. 9 - Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse - was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries — to artistic movements based on or derived from Impressionism, at all.