Post-Impressionist

Examples of Post-Impressionist in the following topics:

• Post-Impressionism

  • Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations.
  • These artists were slightly younger than the Impressionists, and their work contemporaneously became known as Post-Impressionism.
  • Paul Cézanne, who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasizing pictorial structure; he is most often called a post-Impressionist.
  • The Post-Impressionists were dissatisfied with the triviality of subject matter and the loss of structure in Impressionist paintings, although they did not agree on the way forward.
  • Vincent Van Gogh used swirling brush strokes in many of his Post-Impressionist works.

• Cézanne

  • Cézanne was a French, Post-Impressionist painter whose work highlights the transition from the 19th century to the early 20th century.
  • Cézanne moved between Paris and Provence, exhibiting in the first (1874) and third Impressionist shows (1877).
  • The lightness of his Impressionist works contrast sharply with his dramatic resignation in his final period of productivity from 1898-1905.
  • Under Pissarro's influence, Cezanne's works became much brighter and Impressionist in style.
  • Discuss the evolution and influence of Cezanne's style of painting during the Post-Impressionist movement.

• Expressive and Symbolic Uses of Color

  • Abstract Expressionism is an American post–World War II movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.
  • The artist of the movement were committed to an expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes, and most were shaped by the legacy of Surrealism, a movement which they translated into a new style fitted to the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma.
  • He emerged as a Post-Impressionist, and first achieved prominence as the leader of the French movement Fauvism.

• Fauvism

  • The Fauves were a group of early twentieth-century Modern artists based in Paris whose works challenged Impressionist values.
  • Fauvism can be classified as an extreme development of Van Gogh's Post-Impressionism fused with the pointillism of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist painters, in particular Paul Signac.

• Impressionist Painting

• Impressionist Sculpture

  • Several different directions in the classical tradition were taken as the century turned, but the study of the live model and the post-Renaissance tradition was still fundamental.
  • Rodin, often considered a sculptural Impressionist, did not set out to rebel against artistic traditions, however, he incorporated novel ways of building his sculpture that defied classical categories and techniques.
  • While he never self-identified as an Impressionist, the vigorous, gestural modeling he employed in his works is often likened to the quick, gestural brush strokes aiming to capture a fleeting moment that was typical of the Impressionists.
  • He soon joined forces with the Impressionists, however, and rejected the rigid rules, judgments, and elitism of the Salon—just as the Salon and general public initially rejected the experimentalism of the Impressionists.
  • The controversial sculpture that Degas showed in the Impressionist Exhibition of 1881 is noted for its experimentalism and breaks with tradition.

• Europe and America from 1850–1900

  • The pioneers of modern art were Romantics, Realists and Impressionists.
  • By the late 19th century, additional movements which were to be influential in modern art had begun to emerge: post-Impressionism as well as Symbolism.
  • The Impressionists argued that people do not see objects but only the light which they reflect, and therefore painters should paint in natural light (en plein air) rather than in studios and should capture the effects of light in their work .
  • Impressionist artists formed a group, Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs ("Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers") which, despite internal tensions, mounted a series of independent exhibitions.

• Modern Life

  • Radicals in their time, early impressionists violated the rules of academic painting.
  • The term "impressionists" quickly gained favor with the public.
  • The Impressionists captured ordinary subjects, specially the pastimes of modern life.
  • Impressionist artists relaxed the boundary between subject and background so that the effect of an impressionist painting often resembles a snapshot, a part of a larger reality captured as if by chance.
  • Discuss the radical nature of capturing everday modern life by early Impressionist painters.

• Impressionism

  • The Impressionists found that they could capture the momentary and transient effects of sunlight by painting en plein air.
  • Radicals in their time, early impressionists violated the rules of academic painting.
  • The term "impressionists" quickly gained favor with the public.
  • The Impressionists captured ordinary subjects, engaged in day to day activities in both rural and urban settings.
  • Impressionist artists relaxed the boundary between subject and background so that the effect of an impressionist painting often resembles a snapshot, a part of a larger reality captured as if by chance.

• Figure

  • Impressionist painters portrayed ordinary subjects in a simple, natural, and realistic style, breaking the traditional canon of painting.
  • Impressionist painters championed the depiction of contemporary subjects, such as dancers and women in the entertainment industry, the bourgeoisie in cafés, and casual spectators of the modern life.
  • Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the impressionist style.
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
  • Discuss the figural works of Impressionist painters Manet, Degas, and Renoir.