Post-Impressionism
Beyond pure Impressionism
Post-Impressionism is the art movement that emerged in France during the 1880s and 1890s as a reaction against impressionism's limitations.
Artists like Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Seurat retained impressionism's vivid colors but sought greater emotional depth, symbolic meaning, and formal structure: The museum's Post-Impressionism gallery features several Cézannes.
The hyphenated, capitalized form is standard in art historical writing.
- CézanneFrench Post-Impressionist painter
- GauguinFrench artist abroad
- SeuratPointillism's founder
- Toulouse-LautrecFin-de-siècle lithographer
Dot-based art technique
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- impastoHeavily applied pigment technique
- complementary colorsOpposite tones on spectrum
- stipplingDot-based shading technique
juxtaposition · color theory · structure · contour · stylization · distortion
Inherent quality or disposition
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- still lifeArt of inanimate objects
- portraitureArt of depicting people
- TahitiFrench Polynesia's largest island
Provence · peasant life · spirituality · primitivism · symbolism · allegory · mythology · dreams
Expressionist color-focused art school
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- MatisseFrench fauvism founder
Picasso · Kandinsky · Die Brücke · Der Blaue Reiter · twentieth century · avant-garde · influence · innovation
Intensely clear and bright
- chromaticRelating to color
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- luminousEmitting or reflecting light
- boldCourageous and daring
vibrant · expressive · symbolic · subjective · emotive · structural · geometric · flattened
Intensely clear and bright
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- chromaticRelating to color
- complementaryMutually supplying lacks
- harmoniousPleasingly in accord
bold · intense · luminous · vibrant · prismatic · expressive · heightened · contrasting
Complex psychological state
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
- inner visionMental sight, imagination
- psychologicalOf the mind
- symbolicRepresenting through signs
personal · spiritual · mood · feeling · intensity · introspection · temperament · passion
Van Gogh
Toulouse-Lautrec · Bernard · Denis · Rousseau · France · 1880s · 1890s
pointillism
Dot-based art technique
- brushworkPainter's stroke method
- impastoHeavily applied pigment technique
- complementary colorsOpposite tones on spectrum
stippling · juxtaposition · color theory · structure · contour · stylization · distortion
nature
Inherent quality or disposition
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- still lifeArt of inanimate objects
- portraitureArt of depicting people
Tahiti · Provence · peasant life · spirituality · primitivism · symbolism · allegory · mythology · dreams · isolation
Fauvism
Expressionist color-focused art school
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- ModernismBreak from traditional forms
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
Matisse · Picasso · Kandinsky · Die Brücke · Der Blaue Reiter · twentieth century · avant-garde · influence · innovation · foundation
vivid
Intensely clear and bright
bold · vibrant · expressive · symbolic · subjective · emotive · structural · geometric · flattened · decorative
vivid
Intensely clear and bright
- saturatedThoroughly soaked through
- chromaticRelating to color
- complementaryMutually supplying lacks
harmonious · bold · intense · luminous · vibrant · prismatic · expressive · heightened · contrasting · unmixed
emotion
Complex psychological state
- subjectivityPersonal viewpoint coloring perception
- inner visionMental sight, imagination
- psychologicalOf the mind
symbolic · personal · spiritual · mood · feeling · intensity · introspection · temperament · passion · authenticity
- art stylessurrealism, cubism, realism, pop art, minimalism
- paintingoil painting, watercolor, acrylic paint, oils, oil paints
- 19th century artsRomanticism, Realism, opera, symphony, Monet
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, modern art, Renaissance art
- Modern Artcubism, Cubism, Fauvism, dadaism, Dadaism
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Surrealism, surrealism, Cubism
Post-ImpressionismImpressionism
Art movement emphasizing light
Neoclassicism · Old Masters · Romanticism · Baroque · Realism
Post-ImpressionismBeaux-Arts
Classical French architectural tradition
impress, impressive, impression, impressionable, Impressionism