Post-Impressionist Art
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
Artist: William Henry Innes
Forest - Late 20th Century Impressionist Oil Pastel Landscape by William Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
English Town - Mid - Late 20th Century Impressionist Oil Pastel Town by Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Cornish Seaside - Mid - Late 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
By the Sea - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Pastel Landscape by Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Farmhouse Landscape - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil Pastel
By The River Yar - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
Apple Blossom Tree Park - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Oil by Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Apple Blossom Tree and Dandelions - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Oil
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Country Celebration - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Piece of Manor House
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Flowers By My Window - 20th Century Still Life Pastel by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New England Arts Club and the Royal Instit...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Seascape St Ives - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Pastel by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
English Farmhouse - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil Pastel
Grey Day At Eastbourne - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Pastel of a Boat
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Cotswolds Landscape - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
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