Postimpressionism

Postimpressionism

• Late 1880s

• Experimented with Form and Color

• Expression of Chaos and complexity

Postimpressionism

• As Paul Cézanne said “I do not want to reproduce nature, I want to recreate it.”

• This movement expressed more artistic freedoms and changed common perception of life

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Vincent Van Gogh

• Dutch painter

• brilliant colors and distorted forms

• intense statements

Georges Seurat

• Pointillism

• placing small dabs of color close together

• produces a three-dimensional effect

Grande “A Sunday on La Jatte”(1884 – 86)

Seurat

“Le Cirque” (1891)

Cezanne

Self-Portrait

Cezanne

“Mont Sainte-Victoire” (1885-86)

Cezanne

“Still Life with Apples and Oranges” (1902)

Paul Gauguin• Tahiti and the Pacific

Islands

• universal truths in nonindustrial cultures

Paul Gauguin

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

• Portrayed Paris nightlife

• Vivid detail and bright colors

• Reality of lives he portrayed