Post-Impressionism

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Post-Impressionism

• -Morgan Evelyna

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The Background of Post-Impressionism

• Post-Impressionism is the term that came from the
  art critique artist Roger Fry in 1910 to
  describe the exhibition Manet the
  Post-Impressionist. Post- Impression protracted
  Impressionism while refusing its limitations. Yet
  Post-Impressionism itself was never a real
  movement.
• the label adopts number of very different groups
  who all tried to replace Impressionism as the
  leading avant-garde of the late 19th century.
  Indeed, many of its foremost figures were rivals
  in procedure and technique Gaugin and Seurat
  both disliked one another and shared a low
  opinion of each others styles and while van
  Gogh revered the work of Degas and Rousseau, he
  was disbelieving of Cezanne.

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Characteristics (mainly focused on the personal
experience of the painter)

• (1880s-1900s)
• Characteristics
• - brushstrokes-personally expressive -style
  sake -no fleeting light or moment ( multiple
  moments or angles) -bright palette-moved away
  from journalistic detail of earlier periods -art
  is for the artists  
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Comparison Post-Impressionism vs Impressionism

• Both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism refer
  to influential artistic movements arising in late
  19th-century France. Impressionists rejected the
  system of state-controlled academies and salons
  in favor of independent exhibitions
• Post-Impressionism is a term used to describe the
  reaction in the 1880s against Impressionism
• Post-Impressionists also believed that color
  could be independent from form and composition as
  an emotional and aesthetic bearer of meaning
• Both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism include
  some of the most famous works of modern art
• The term Impressionism is used to describe a
  group of painters living in Paris who worked
  between c. 1860 and 1900
• The Post-Impressionists rejected Impressionisms
  concern with the spontaneous and naturalistic
  rendering of light and color

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Most Notable Artists of Post-Impressionism

• -Paul Gauguin,
• -Paul Cezanne
• -Vincent Van Gogh
• -Henri Rousseau,
• -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
• Others include but are not limited to
• -Claude-Emile Schuffnecker,
• -Henri Martin,
• -Charles Filiger,
• -Pierre Bonnard,
• -Picasso,
• -Suzanne Valadon,
• -Roger Fry,
• -Jan Verkade,
• -Aubrey Beardsley,
• -James Ensor,
• -James Dickson Innes, and
• -Edouard Vuillard.

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Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904-6, Oil
on Canvas
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Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904-6, Oil
on Canvas

• his abstract work highly influenced later
  modernist painters
• -in the 1870s, Cézanne adopted a style under the
  influence of Pissaro that had a bright palette,
  broken brushwork and everyday subject matter of
  the Impressionism
• Cézannes goal to make Impressionist art
  something solid and durable like the art in the
  museums
• even lighting

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All About the Artist Paul Cézanne

• Paul Cézanne was a French painter, often called
  the father of modern art, who developed an ideal
  synthesis of naturalistic representation,
  personal expression, and abstract pictorial
  order.
• Cézanne was born in the southern French town of
  Aix-en-Provence, January 19, 1839, the son of a
  wealthy banker. Cézanne developed artistic
  interests at an early age, much to the dismay of
  his father. In 1862, after a number of bitter
  family disputes, the aspiring artist was given a
  small allowance and sent to study art in Paris.
  From the start he was drawn to the more radical
  elements of the Parisian art world. He especially
  admired the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix
  and, among the younger masters, Gustave Courbet
  and the notorious Edouard Manet, who exhibited
  realist paintings that were shocking in both
  style and subject matter to most of their
  contemporaries.

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Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of the Grand Jatte, 1884-86, Oil on Canvas
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Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island
of the Grand Jatte, 1884-86, Oil on Canvas

• works with complementary colors
• interpretations Seurat may have intended to show
  how tranquil the island should be, or it could
  have been a criticism of the Parisian
  middle-class
• Seurat tackled the issues of color, light and
  form
• seems to recall much older forms of art ancient
  Egyptians (with its formal style)

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All About The Artist Georges Seurat

• Georges-Pierre Seurat on December 2, 1859, in
  Paris, France. Georges Seurat produced most of
  his works during the 1880's, which are regarded
  as one of the most salient periods of aesthetic
  change. He exhibited his last ambitious work, 'Le
  Circque' (The Circus 1891), while it was still
  unfinished. During his short life Seurat made
  only seven large paintings, working for a year or
  more on each one. At the same time he made about
  five hundred smaller paintings and drawings.

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Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, Oil on
Canvas
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Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889, Oil on
Canvas

• -The Starry Night is Van Goghs most famous
  painting, perhaps his greatest
• -van Gogh painted it from his window in the
  asylum of Saint-Remy
• above the quiet town the sky pulsates with
  celestial rhythms and lazes with exploding stars
• one explanation for the intensity of van Goghs
  feelings is the then-popular theory that after
  death people journey to a star, where they
  continue their lives
• -painted from the imagination, not from nature,
  perhaps influenced by Gauguin who said that art
  is an abstraction

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All About the ArtistVincent van Gogh

• (March 30 1853  July 29 1890) was a Dutch
  Post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable
  for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold
  color, had a far-reaching influence on
  20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety
  and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at
  the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally
  accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun
  was ever found). His work was then known to only
  a handful of people and appreciated by fewer
  still. He produced more than 2,000 artworks,
  consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100
  drawing and sketches

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Websites

• Wikipedia
• http//academics.smcvt.edu/awerbel/Survey20of20A
  rt20History20II/PostImpressionism.htm
• //www.imdb.com/name/nm0786192/bio
• http.theartstory.org
• Google.com
• Ibiblio.org
• http//www.oxfordartonline.com/public/page/themes/
  impressionismandpostimpressionism