3. ThePost Impressionist period came when several ABOUT
former Impressionist painters became dissatisfied
with the movements insistence on light and color.
HISTORY
The post-Impressionists aspired to find more depth
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in the roles of color, form and solidity in painting.
The term post-impressionism is used to denote the
effort at self-expression, emotion, mood and rather
than representation of object.
4. The style of the work, developing a new method ABOUT
of paint application or viewing the piece from
multiple angles, was more important than
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subject matter.
Characteristics:
-see brushstrokes ARTISTS
-personally expressive
-style over fidelity
-no fleeting light or moment (multiple moments or
angles)
-bright palette
-moved away from journalistic detail of earlier periods
-art is for the artist’s sake
5. The Post-Impressionists were several artists of the ABOUT
late 19th century, who saw the work of the French
Impressionist painters and were influenced by
HISTORY
them. Their art styles grew out of the style called
"Impressionism".
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Theword "Post" means after, so "Post-
Impressionist" art came after "Impressionist" art.
6. Related to Pointillism, a technique of painting in ABOUT
which small, distinct dots of pure color is applied
in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat
HISTORY
developed the technique in 1886, branching from
Impressionism
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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
7. The sculptor Auguste Rodin is sometimes ABOUT
called an Impressionist for the way he used
roughly modeled surfaces to suggest
HISTORY
transient light effects.
Pictorialists photographers whose work is
characterized by soft focus and atmospheric ARTISTS
effects have also been called Impressionists.
French Impressionist Cinema is a term
applied to a loosely defined group of films
and filmmakers in France from 1919-1929,
although these years are debatable.
8. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ABOUT
Disabled poster artist known as one of the first Graphic
Designers
Paul Cezanne HISTORY
Large block-like brushstrokes; Still life's, Landscapes
Vincent Van Gogh
Disturbed painter of loose brushstrokes and bright, vivid ARTISTS
colors
Paul Gauguin
Rejected Urban Life and choose secondary-colored Tahitian
women
Auguste Rodin
Bronze sculptor; Very loose and not detailed. “The Thinker”
9. Often called the Father of Modern art. ABOUT
Influenced by the Impressionist Camille Pissarro, HISTORY
Cezanne was a master of still life, portraiture, genre-
painting and landscape.
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Paul Cezanne painted more than 200 still-life
compositions in his lifetime
His works had a huge influence on the prototype
Cubism of Picasso and Braque.
12. An important contributor to the foundations of Modern art. ABOUT
Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy as well as other
mental and physical conditions. HISTORY
He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900
paintings and 1,100 drawings. ARTISTS
Vincent shot himself in France, but did not die until 2 days later at
the age of 37.
Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits,
landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most
recognizable and expensive works of art and sketches.
15. Eugène Henri Paul was a leading Post- ABOUT
Impressionist.
An artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist HISTORY
and writer.
He was influenced by Camille Pissaro and Georgia
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O’ Keeffe and was a friend of Vincent Van Gogh
Gauguin introduced exotic and primitive elements
into the art of the time and his colour and
symbolism gave his paintings great intensity.
17. Generally considered the progenitor of modern ABOUT
sculptor.
Departing with centuries of tradition, he turned HISTORY
away from the idealism of the Greeks, and the
decorative beauty of the Baroque and neo-Baroque
movements. ARTISTS
His sculpture emphasized the individual and the
concreteness of flesh, and suggested emotion
through detailed, textured surfaces, and the
interplay of light and shadow.
20. Was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and ABOUT
illustrator.
He painted social taboos and sordid truths of Parisian
life in a straightforward unsentimental manner. HISTORY
Throughout his career, which spanned less than 20
years, Toulouse-Lautrec created 737 canvases, 275
watercolours, 363 prints and posters, 5,084 drawings, ARTISTS
some ceramic and stained glass work, and an unknown
number of lost works
In a 2005 auction at Christie’s auction house a new
record was set when "La blanchisseuse", an early
painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million
U.S.
23. The transformed contrasting short brushstrokes of ABOUT
Impressionism into curving, vibrant lines of color,
exaggerated even beyond Impressionist brilliance,
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that convey emotionally charged and ecstatic
responses to the natural landscape. In general,
Post-Impressionism led away from a naturalistic ARTISTS
approach and toward the two major movements of
early 20th-century art that superseded Cubism and
Fauvism, which sought to evoke emotion through
color and line.