Movement · 1880s
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism is a later name for artists who built on Impressionism while pursuing stronger structure, symbolic color, or more personal expression. It includes distinct approaches by artists such as Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
Where it came from, where it went
- Grew out of1860sImpressionism
Painters used broken brushwork and changing light to capture a passing moment.
- This movement1880sPost-Impressionism
- Led to1900sExpressionism
Artists distorted form and used strong color to convey emotion.
- 1900sFauvism
French painters used vivid, non-naturalistic color and simplified forms.
- 1910sCubism
Artists broke objects into geometric parts and showed more than one viewpoint at once.
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Society · Paris · 1884
Société des Artistes Indépendants
Jury-free annual salon founded 1884 by Seurat, Signac, Dubois-Pillet, Redon and others. Home of Neo-Impressionism; Henri Rousseau first showed there in 1886.
- Fernand Léger
- Georges Seurat
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Paul Signac
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
Source: Wikipedia
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