Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil, Paper
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Graphite
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1970s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Oil Pastel, Paper
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1970s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink, Pen, Watercolor, Crayon
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Charcoal
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1910s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pencil
1970s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Mixed Media
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
1890s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1970s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel, Acrylic
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Synthetic Paper, Color Pencil
1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Carbon Pencil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1990s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Ink
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Color Pencil
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Gouache
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
India Ink
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Watercolor
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Color Pencil
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Crayon, Pastel, Gouache
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Pastel
20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Mixed Media, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Graphite
1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Paper, Graphite