Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
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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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
1970s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Masonite, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Oil
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Illustration Board
1930s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Watercolor, Paper
20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil, Board
1910s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Gouache, Paint, Paper, Pastel
1930s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Pastel
1940s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Acrylic
20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Paper
1970s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media
20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Metal, Stainless Steel
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
1910s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Mixed Media
1970s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Pastel, Photographic Paper
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Epoxy Resin, Photographic Film
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Epoxy Resin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Epoxy Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Watercolor
1950s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil, Board
1960s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil, Acrylic, Board
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Charcoal, Acrylic, Masonite
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil, Acrylic, Board
1950s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Masonite, Oil
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Handmade Paper
1980s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil, Board
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Gesso, Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil, Panel
20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Gouache, Photographic Paper
20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Canvas, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Oil, Panel
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Epoxy Resin, Glaze, Acrylic, Archival Paper
20th Century Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Gouache, Photographic Paper
1970s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil Pastel, Gouache, Board
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paint, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
1970s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Oil Pastel, Gouache, Board
1980s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Cardboard
1940s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
2010s Post-Impressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media