6.4 Post Impressionism

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Post Impressionism

  • phase of modern art during which artists sought to progress beyond the narrow, imitative style of Impressionism and its naturalistic depiction of light and color

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Paul Cezanne

  • Father of Post-Impressionism

  • known for his structured compositions of landscapes and still lives

  • forged a link between Impressionism and Cubism

  • The Bather

  • The Large Bathers

<ul><li><p><span>Father of Post-Impressionism</span></p></li><li><p><span>known for his structured compositions of landscapes and still lives</span></p></li><li><p><span>forged a link between Impressionism and Cubism</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>The Bather</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>The Large Bathers</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Paul Gaugin

  • unique style of using large patches of solid color to express his inner emotions on canvas

  • The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch

  • Woman with a Flower

<ul><li><p><span>unique style of using large patches of solid color to express his inner emotions on canvas</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Woman with a Flower</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Synthetism

decorative lines, flat patches of bold color, and esoteric symbolism

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Cloisonism

2-D style works featuring blocks of pure color with black edging

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Georges Seurat

  • pioneer of the Neo-Impressionist technique commonly known as Divisionism (chromo-luminarism), or Pointillism (melange optique/optical mixture)

  • sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte

  • bathers at asnieres

<ul><li><p>pioneer of the Neo-Impressionist technique commonly known as <strong>Divisionism (chromo-luminarism)</strong>, or<strong> Pointillism (melange optique/optical mixture)</strong></p></li><li><p><span><strong>sunday afternoon on the island of la grande jatte</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>bathers at asnieres</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Paul Signac

  • focused primarily on landscape painting and seascapes in vivid bright colors.

  • Portrait of Félix Fénéon

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  • archetypal bohemian artist, was an aristocrat, dwarf, and party animal

  • first artist to elevate advertising to the status of fine art, obliterating the boundaries between high and low art

  • works revolved around the moulin rouge

  • Avril

  • At the Moulin Rouge

<ul><li><p><span>archetypal bohemian artist, was an aristocrat, dwarf, and party animal</span></p></li><li><p><span>first artist to elevate advertising to the status of fine art, obliterating the boundaries between high and low art</span></p></li><li><p><span>works revolved around the moulin rouge</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Avril</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>At the Moulin Rouge</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Henri Rousseau

  • amateurish technique and unusual compositions

  • lush jungle scenes, inspired not by any firsthand experiences of such locales but by frequent trips to the Paris gardens and zoo

  • Surprised! Tiger in a Tropical Storm

  • the dream

<ul><li><p><span>amateurish technique and unusual compositions</span></p></li><li><p><span>lush jungle scenes, inspired not by any firsthand experiences of such locales but by frequent trips to the Paris gardens and zoo</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>Surprised! Tiger in a Tropical Storm</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>the dream</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Gustave Moreau

  • early exponent of Symbolism

  • known for his visionary style of mythological painting and imaginative history painting

  • The Apparition

<ul><li><p><span>early exponent of </span><strong>Symbolism</strong></p></li><li><p><span>known for his visionary style of mythological painting and imaginative history painting</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>The Apparition</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Camille Pissarro

  • woods at marly, la recolte des foins

  • eragny

<ul><li><p><span><strong>woods at marly, la recolte des foins</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>eragny</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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Henri Matisse

  • leader of the Fauves group, whose vividly colored canvases were described as being the work of wild beasts (Fauves in French)

  • creative flouting of the conventional rules of drawing and perspective, as well as his fluid and innovative draftsmanship

  • woman with a hat

  • la dance

<ul><li><p><span>leader of the </span><strong>Fauves group</strong><span>, whose vividly colored canvases were described as being the work of wild beasts (Fauves in French)</span></p></li><li><p><span>creative flouting of the conventional rules of drawing and perspective, as well as his fluid and innovative draftsmanship</span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>woman with a hat</strong></span></p></li><li><p><span><strong>la dance</strong></span></p></li></ul><p></p>
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André Derain

  • the trees

<ul><li><p><strong>the trees</strong></p></li></ul><p></p>

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