Post Impressionism by Mark What is Post Impressionism

Post. Impressionism by Mark

What is Post. Impressionism? • Post-impressionism (or Post-Impressionism) is a term used to describe the development of French art after Manet (1832– 1883). • The British artist and art critic Roger Fry used the term in 1910, and it is now a standard art term. • Fry organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. • The post-impressionists were artists of the late 19 th century who saw the work of the French Impressionist painters and were influenced by them.

Style of Post. Impressionism • Some common characteristics of the artists in post -impressionism are: • Displaying symbolic and highly personal meanings through their subjects, the use of symbolic motifs • Maintaining the structure, order, and the optical effects of colour • Use of unnatural colours • Focus on abstract form and pattern in the application of paint to the surface of the canvas • Painterly brushstrokes

Similarities with Impressionism • Artists belonging to both Impressionism and Post Impressionism art movements shared the following characteristics: • used real-life subjects • used vivid colours in their paintings • had distinctive brushstrokes • display thick layers of paint

Who were the postimpressionists? • The main post-impressionist painters were: • Paul Cezanne • Vincent van Gogh (But we will meet him in expressionism) • Georges Seurat • Henri Toulouse-Lautrec • Henri Rousseau ('Le Douanier’) • And…………………………………

Paul Gauguin (18481903) • Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. • Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and style very distinct from Impressionism. • Famous for paintings of his time living in Tahiti, French Polynesia

Some Famous Works by Gauguin • The Painter of Sunflowers (1888) • The Yellow Christ (1889) • Arearea (1892)

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