Paul Elie Gernez
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Paper, Laid Paper, Panel, Oil
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Panel, Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Board, Oil
1930s Modern Nude Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
People Also Browsed
1980s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Board, Gouache
1870s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1870s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Modern Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
1840s Realist Nude Paintings
Oil
1930s Modern Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Panel
1920s Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
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1910s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Board, Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1910s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1940s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Oil
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
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A Close Look at Post-Impressionist Art
In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.
The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.
The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.
The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.
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Finding the Right figurative-paintings for You
Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.
While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.
Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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