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Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism emerged in the 1880s as an umbrella term for experimental art styles that departed from Impressionism. Post-Impressionists incorporated bolder colors, expressive brushwork, and subjective experience over naturalistic effects of light. They expanded Impressionism’s artistic freedoms in symbolic, decorative or emotionally evocative directions.
Key Post-Impressionists include Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Paul Cézanne. They shared an expressive use of color and distorted forms to convey individual feeling or meaning beyond surface appearances. Van Gogh’s turbulent landscapes and portraits were highly emotive. Gauguin sought exotic sensuality in Tahiti. Seurat employed Pointillism, while Cézanne developed a geometrical style that shaped early 20th century Fauvism and Cubism.
Post-Impressionism originated in France as the Impressionist circle dispersed in the 1880s. Artists sought more conceptual depth and personal expression, incorporating influences from Symbolism, Synthetism and outside Western traditions. The movement gained recognition in the early 1900s, though many works were controversial during Post-Impressionists’ lifetimes. It shaped modern art’s turn toward expressiveness and non-Western sources over naturalism alone.
At its best, Post-Impressionism produced intensely expressive works aimed at representing subjective experience and deeper truths beneath surface realities. Post-Impressionists demonstrated how artistic vision could shape understanding of both the inner and outer worlds through highly symbolic and personal forms. They forged a new visual language through which to convey ideas, emotions and metaphysical concerns at the heart of human existence.
Though a short-lived phenomenon, Post-Impressionism altered the course of modern art. Its artists aimed to express through color and form dimensions of human consciousness beyond the material plane alone. The Post-Impressionists’ visionary and conceptual works demonstrated art’s potential to shape interior lives as well as capture surface beauty. Their paintings remain icons of how artistic genius can transform vision into enduring symbols of human possibility.

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Famous Artists

> Alfred Sisley
> Camille Pissarro
> Caravaggio
> Claude Monet
> Diego Velázquez
> Edgar Degas
> Édouard Manet
> Eugène Delacroix
> Francisco de Goya
> Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
> Isaac Levitan
> Ivan Shishkin
> Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
> Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
> John Singer Sargent
> John William Waterhouse
> Joseph Mallord William Turner
> Lawrence Alma-Tadema
> Leonardo da Vinci
> Michelangelo
> Paul Cézanne
> Paul Gauguin
> Peter Paul Rubens
> Pierre-Auguste Renoir
> Raphael Sanzio
> Rembrandt Van Rijn
> Vincent van Gogh
> William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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