Post-Impressionism

ポスト印象主義 / 1880s–1900s / Style / Painting Techniques

A collective name for painters who found the improvisation of Impressionism insufficient and recovered structure, symbol and emotion, each in their own way. It is not one style but several answers standing side by side, among them pointillism, flat fields of color and surging brushwork. Twentieth century abstraction branched off from here.

Post-Impressionism — Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Post-Impressionism — Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir, 1904 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir, 1904 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Post-Impressionism — Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

At a glance

Visual cues

A constructed order of brushstrokes
Flat, forceful fields of color
Undulating line that carries emotion
Inquiry into form ahead of subject

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Dictionary entry

Type: Change the typeface with each manner and do not aim for uniformity.
Composition: Give priority to building planes and break perspective on purpose.
Material: Thick paint, with the borders between fields of color left visible.
Caution: Do not treat it as a single style. Name each time whose solution you mean.
Further study: The name coined by Roger Fry in 1910 / The difference between Cézanne's planes and Van Gogh's touch / The branching into Cubism and Fauvism

Related entries

Impressionism (印象主義)Same Painting Techniques lineage.Compare Post-Impressionism and Impressionism
Cloisonnism (クロワゾニスム)Shared effects: Intimacy.Compare Post-Impressionism and Cloisonnism

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