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Post-Impressionism

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Page 1: Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionist styles derived from their forerunners’ breakthroughs. They wanted to express their emotions through color and light.

Post-Impressionism

Page 2: Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionist styles derived from their forerunners’ breakthroughs. They wanted to express their emotions through color and light.

Post-ImpressionismPost-Impressionist styles derived from their forerunners’ breakthroughs.

They wanted to express their emotions through color and light.

Page 3: Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionist styles derived from their forerunners’ breakthroughs. They wanted to express their emotions through color and light.

SeuratCreated a quasi-scientific method called “Pointalism”It consisted of applying confetti sized dots of pure, un-mixed color over the whole canvas

This was to fuse together like a mosaic from a distance, but the specks never really do merge.

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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat

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Detail of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat

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Detail of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat

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Eiffel Tower by Seurat

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SeuratFor him warm colors meant action and gaiety, as did lines moving upward.

Dark, cool colors and decending lines evoked sadness.

Middle tones (balance of cool and warm) and lateral lines conveyed calm.

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Toulouse-LetrecHe is credited with creating poster and lithography as respectable art mediums.

He specialized in portraying movement and private moments through slice of life glimpses.

Almost always interior night scenes lit by glaring artificial light.

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Moulin Rouge by Toulouse Lautrec

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Divan Japonaise by Toulouse Lautrec

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At the Moulin Rouge Toulouse Lautrec

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CezanneCezanne offered a new view of surface appearances. Instead of imitating reality he saw it’s underlying geometry.

He would simplify objects into near abstract forms.

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Mont Sainte-Victoire by Cezanne

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The Card Players by Cezanne (sold in 2011 for $256 Million)

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GauguinProsperous Parisian stockbroker before he took up Sunday painting in 1873

Goal was “to return painting it’s primal emotion and imagination

Flattened forms, used saturated color arbitrarily for emotional impact, and above all- presented his subjective response to reality.

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GauguinOften went without meals for days in a row because he lacked the funds to buy food.

Without money for material Gauguin still painted, using thin paint on coarse sacking instead.

Later work was deeply inspired by Tahitian culture.

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Tahitian Women on the Beach by Gauguin

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Van GoghWhen Van Gogh saw Impressionism in Paris his art work radically changed.He switched from dark to bright colors and from social realist themes to light-drenched outdoor scenes.

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Olive Trees by Van Gogh

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Van GoghHe produced 800 paintings and as many drawings in 10 years.

Van Gogh never received recognition for his work and only sold one painting during his lifetime.

He was a patient in an asylum when he produced Starry Night.

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Van Gogh“…the day will come when it will be seen that they are worth more than the price of the colors they are painted with, and of my life which in general is pretty barren.”

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Van GoghPortrait of Dr. Gachet sold in 1990 for $145 Million.

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Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Van Gogh

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Portrait of Joseph Roulin by Van Gogh (sold for $111 Million in 1989)

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Irises by Van Gogh (sold for $109 Million in 1987)