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.
A constructed order of brushstrokes / Flat, forceful fields of color / Undulating line that carries emotion / Inquiry into form ahead of subject
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Showing in a single image what happened after Impressionism · Comparing cases where one subject was solved by different methods
- 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