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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2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Photographic Paper
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
Oil, Panel
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Monotype, Paper, Crayon
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
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1940s Post-Impressionist Art
Lithograph
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Canvas, Oil
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Lithograph
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Oil
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
Panel, Oil
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1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Drypoint
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Acrylic
1940s Post-Impressionist Art
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Canvas, Paint
19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Lithograph
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art
Oil
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
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1950s Post-Impressionist Art
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
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Paper, Graphite, Wax Crayon
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1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Oil, Paper
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Monotype, Paper
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Art
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Watercolor
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Monotype, Paper
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Watercolor, Ink, Color Pencil
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Art
Watercolor, Postcard
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Canvas, Oil
19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Lithograph
1910s Post-Impressionist Art
Paper, Pencil
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Canvas, Acrylic
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Lithograph
1890s Post-Impressionist Art
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1890s Post-Impressionist Art
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Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Watercolor
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Etching
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
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1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Canvas, Oil