Post-Impressionist Abstract 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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20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, House Paint
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Cotton Canvas
1930s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Gouache, Handmade Paper
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Silk, Acrylic
20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Ink, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic
1980s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic, Charcoal
2010s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil