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Post Impressionism
Title: Post Impressionism
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 642 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Post Impressionism
Post Impressionism
Art critics first used the term “post-impressionistic” in 1911 to loosely describe the work of a few artists whose paintings reflect Impressionistic principles, but were created after the movement had lost favour in the late seventeenth century (around 1885). Significant artists whose works have been defined in this category include Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Post-Impressionists, these few in particular, pushed Impressionist principles further than they had previously been explored. Those …showed first 75 words of 642 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 642 total…that of the Impressionists, creating pieces depicting the artist’s impression of landscapes and lending insight to an aspect of contemporary life (rather than the narrative or moralistic works previously prized). Post-Impressionist artists, however, further developed these principles and experimented with new styles and techniques, the most prominent of which being the expressionistic, decorative and often unnatural use of colour to depict not only the subject or setting but the emotional state of the artist.
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