Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

POSTIMPRESSIONIST STYLE

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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Style: Post-Impressionist

Matisse, Sainte I, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after)

Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Sainte I, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Le Favne, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Poésies, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Nymphes, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, L´Apres-mini d´vn Favne, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Cantique de Saint Jean, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Hérodiade, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, L´Azur, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Le Sonneur, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Soupir, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Le Pitre Châtié, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Apparition, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Le Guignon, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Salut, Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé (after), 1970

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mademoiselle Yvonne Landsberg, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Henri MatisseModern Master Colour Lithograph 'Souvenirs d'Océanie' on Wove paper, 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Madame Gréta Moll, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Nini Bétron, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Le Jeune Matelot, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mlle X, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Madame Gréta Prozor, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Auguste Pellerin, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Georges Besson, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mademoiselle M.A., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mademoiselle M.A., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mademoiselle H.D., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mademoiselle L.L., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Madame Matisse, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Femme à la Chaise Rouge, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Madame L.D., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Tête blanche et rose, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Mademoiselle A.N.Annelies, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Madame L.D., Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Madame Matisse, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Margueritte Matisse, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Pierre Matisse, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Marguerite Matisse, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Marguerite Matisse, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Matisse, Henry de Montherlant, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after), 1954

1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints

Henri Matisse
Modern Master Colour Lithograph 'Souvenirs d'Océanie' on Wove paper, 1954