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Cezanne - Blue Vase |
The Post-Impressionist period wasn't so much an artistic label of it's own but rather a group of artists' responce to the Impressionist ways of painting. By the late 1880's the Impressionists were seen as serious artists and their paintings were no longer regarded as crude and unfinished works as they once were. Many of the painters and their young followers were becoming dissatisfied with the limitations of the style and felt that too many traditional elements of picture making were being neglected. To quote Cezanne, he decided "to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums". |
| A more systematic examination of the properties of three dimensional space, the expressive qualities of line, pattern and colour was undertaken, mainly by four artists in particular, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne. Although these artists and others in this period shared no common goal art history has classified them as being Post Impressionists. All of these artists had accepted the Impressionist methods and never rejected the new and brighter palette, they didn't seek to undo the effects of Impressionism, rather they sought to carry it further, thus making this period of art history a later stage of Impressionism. |
Seurat - Sunday Afternoon
on the Island
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Gauguin - Nevermore |
Van Gogh - Sunflowers |
Vuillard - Woman Darning |
Gauguin - Two Tahitian
Women
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