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Paul Cézanne (regarded as the “Father of Post-Impressionism”), Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat were the most prominent Post-Impressionist painters. Post-Impressionists expanded on Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued to use vivid colors, sometimes impasto (thick application of paint), and to ...
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Theo van Rysselsberghe is another prominent artist from the...
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He was also influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne and the...
- 10 Most Famous Pointillism Paintings
Through their radically independent styles and dedication to pursuing unique means of artistic expression, the Post-Impressionists dramatically influenced generations of artists, including the Nabis, especially Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, the German Expressionists, the Fauves, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque (1882–1963), and American ...
Biographies and analysis of the work of the famous American Post-Impressionism artists. We are adding more artists every week, so stay tuned as the most important artists in the history of art are given proper coverage.
Like many artists in the 1880s they looked for ways to express meaning beyond surface appearances, to paint with the emotions and the intellect as well as the eye. The term postimpressionist does, however, acknowledge that impressionism had shaped these artists.
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and Cézanne innovated Impressionism by infusing symbolism, optics, structure, and personal expression.
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Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour.
