Post-Impressionism

1. Post-Impressionism -Morgan & Evelyna

2. 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 other’s styles; and while van Gogh revered the work of Degas and Rousseau, he was disbelieving of Cezanne.

3. 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 artist’s  

4. 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 Impressionism’s concern with the spontaneous and naturalistic rendering of light and color

5. 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.

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

7. 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 • Cézanne’s goal = to make Impressionist art something solid and durable like the art in the museums • even lighting

8. 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.

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

10. 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)

11. 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.

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

13. 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 Gogh’s 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

14. All About the Artist:Vincent 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

15. Websites • Wikipedia • http://academics.smcvt.edu/awerbel/Survey%20of%20Art%20History%20II/PostImpressionism.htm • ://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786192/bio • http.theartstory.org • Google.com • Ibiblio.org • http://www.oxfordartonline.com/public/page/themes/impressionismandpostimpressionism