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  POSTIMPRESSIONISM,
Seurat is considered a postimpressionist because he used the color technique of the impressionists as a means of achieving structural unity in his work.
Although the postimpressionists based their styles of painting on the color innovations of impressionism, they reacted against the naturalistic accuracy of impressionism and its attempt to depict light.
Other movements in 20th-century art, such as surrealism and futurism, as well as cubism, expressionism, and Fauvism, are referred to as postimpressionist because they developed as a result partly of the freedom achieved for the artist by impressionism and partly of a new emphasis upon mental conception in art.
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 Ordrupgaard
The most important Postimpressionists were Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901).
The circus motif is incidentally typical of the images chosen by the age, and the enigmatic, alienated, slightly decadent expression of the figures can be compared, for example, to Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and Degas’ monotypes from entertainment establishments and brothels in Paris.
In general one can say of the Postimpressionists that they condensed and structured features from Impressionism, and released colour so they could also paint what was not visible.
www.ordrupgaard.dk /stilarter/stil/engelsk/postimpres.html   (558 words)

  
  Edvard Munch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Munch traveled to Paris in 1885, and his work began to show the influence of French painters — first of the impressionists, and then of the postimpressionists and of art nouveau design.
While stylistically influenced by the postimpressionists, Munch's subject matter is symbolist in content, depicting a state of mind rather than an external reality.
Munch maintained that the impressionism idiom did not suit his art.
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 impressionism, in painting. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Monet painted many series of the same subject at different times of day so that the character of light became his subject and the forms of objects seemed to dissolve, as in the series of Rouen Cathedral.
The interests and attitudes of these painters influenced the postimpressionists Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.
At first, with a few exceptions, the works of the impressionist and postimpressionist schools were received with hostility from critics and public alike.
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 Van Gogh
In Europe, meanwhile, other postimpressionists were making use of the discoveries of the impressionists but were carrying the movement further in various directions.
One of these was Vincent van Gogh, a Hollander, who in his short and troubled life left a large number of exciting paintings.
By applying the pigment so that each stroke is visible, he gives the forms a feeling of life and energy, and the room is transformed into a thing of vibrant wonder.
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 Gogh, Vincent van --  Encyclopædia Britannica
One of the four great Postimpressionists (along with Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Paul Cézanne), Vincent van Gogh is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt.
His reputation is based largely on the works of the last three years of his short ten-year painting career, and he had a powerful influence on expressionism in modern art.
In Europe, meanwhile, other postimpressionists were making use of the discoveries of the impressionists but were carrying the movement further in various directions.
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 Past Exhibitions | 2002 | Fairfield Porter: Familiar Spaces
Yet Porter's oeuvre and his devotion to abstracted yet recognizable figural and landscape painting are reflected in a parallel and historically significant group of American painters that includes Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, and Larry Rivers.
Porter has been named an "intimist" for his admiration for the work of French postimpressionists Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, whose paintings of the private and personal domestic arena reflected the French middle class and their interest in pushing the impressionist painters' abstraction even further.
While Porter's admiration for Vuillard and his personal background are established art historical territory, it may be useful to remember that he shared the postimpressionists' visual ideologies for subject matter, light treatment, and the abstract expressionists' painterly manipulation of form and surface.
www.kemperart.org /exhibits/CatalogEssays/fairfieldporter.asp   (1278 words)

  
 Modern Thought and Modern Art: Mirror Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
“Though unique in their styles, postimpressionists were united in their desire to know and depict worlds other than the visible world of fact.
[Postimpressionists] in Paris derived many of their ideas and developed their projections from the same intellectual and artistic material.  This material was the legacy of Cubism and, in particular the work of Apollinaire and Picasso.” (Realism, Rationalism, 61)
The effects of World War I were not limited to the realm of expression but extended into other areas which impact art.
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 Art Periods: POSTIMPRESSIONISM in France
It would be a mistake to view the postimpressionists as simply rejecting their impressionist heritage; rather, they accepted the revolutionary impact of impressionism and went on to explore new aesthetic ideas, many of which grew out of concepts implicit in impressionism.
Another connecting link between most of the postimpressionists -- with the notable exception of Cézanne -- was a common emphasis on surface pattern, a trait that led many contemporary critics to use the term decorative to describe postimpressionist pictures.
Finally, the other-worldliness of the postimpressionist symbolists (see symbolism, art), such as Redon, together with the distorted lines of Art Nouveau in the works of Toulouse-Lautrec and other contemporaries, fostered a growing tendency toward abstract art that was to prove essential to nonfigurative developments in painting after 1910.
www.discoverfrance.net /France/Art/postimpressionism.shtml   (994 words)

  
 Columbia Encyclopedia- impressionism - AOL Research & Learn
Monet painted many series of the same subject at different times of day so that the character of light became his subject and the forms of objects seemed to dissolve, as in the series of Rouen Cathedral.
Impressionism and postimpressionism ran their course and produced aesthetic revolution from within and without, putting hosts of painters to come greatly in its debt.
At first, with a few exceptions, the works of the impressionist and postimpressionist schools were received with hostility from critics and public alike.
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 Wassily Kandinsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He was born in Moscow and he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany.
His early paintings were executed in a naturalistic style, but in 1909, after a trip to Paris during which he was highly impressed by the works of the Fauvists and postimpressionists, his paintings became more highly colored and loosely organized.
In 1910 he created what is considered the first totally abstract work in modern art, a watercolor entitled Composition I or Abstraction, an arrangement in blue, red, and green that makes no reference to objects of the physical world and derives its inspiration and title from music.
www.albany.edu /~hs9326/isp561/kandinsky.html   (275 words)

  
 Wassili Kandinsky biography - Renoir Fine Art
Born in Moscow, December 4, 1866, Kandinsky studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, from 1896 to 1900.
His early paintings were executed in a naturalistic style, but in 1909, after a trip to Paris during which he was highly impressed by the works of the fauves and postimpressionists, his paintings became more highly colored and loosely organized.
Around 1913 he began working on paintings that came to be considered the first totally abstract works in modern art; they made no reference to objects of the physical world and derived their inspiration and titles from music.
www.renoirinc.com /biography/artists/kandinskysht.htm   (434 words)

  
 Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Although the intense emotional expressiveness of his work placed the artist squarely in the midst of the general romantic outpouring of European art, he always remained an individual phenomenon and did not create a school.
As a personality and as a painter, he was admired by the impressionists, postimpressionists, and symbolists who came after him.
These devices were developed further by the impressionists and postimpressionists.
www.bookrags.com /biography/ferdinand-victor-eugene-delacroix   (1188 words)

  
 Monuments - Sage Creek Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Vladimir became a wonderful successor to the Great Russian landscape painters such as Levitan, Vasiliev, Plastov, Korovin, etc. His main motive is to continue in the tradition started by another genius of Soviet landscape painting of the 60’s and 70’s — A. Stozharova.
The paintings of Vladimir Pentjukh are reminiscent of the French impressionists and postimpressionists works (Monet, Sisley, Pissaro, Van Gogh, Cézanne).
This is manifested in his focus on the relationship between colors, light land shades on plein air.
www.sagecreekgallery.com /artists/v_pentjukh/index.htm   (335 words)

  
 Small French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art
Postimpressionism is a catchall label that has been applied to a number of artists whose work had impressionism at its roots.
Many of these artists exhibited in the impressionist exhibitions, among them Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, and Paul Gauguin, but the postimpressionists gradually came to reject the impulse toward naturalism that had been a driving force behind impressionism.
Cézanne replaced the irregularity of his impressionist brushwork with systematized notations that describe underlying form rather than momentary surface appearance.
www.nga.gov /collection/sfp/noflash/post/1970_17_81.htm   (214 words)

  
 Sibylle Szaggars-Biographical Sketch
She already then started to admire the depth and mystery of older cultures and traditions and would record her experiences through painting and sketching.
Szaggars was drawn to Postimpressionists such as Gauguin and Van Gogh and she studied their work and techniques.
She moved to London, England in the early 80's and fell in love with the Tate Gallery and the Academy of Art where she was introduced to the works of Turner- but also to many modern and abstract artists.
www.sibylleszaggars.com /sketch.html   (532 words)

  
 Effect Of Postimpressionists On The Next Generation | Free Term Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
But whereas impressionist painters concentrated on the depiction of a subject's immediate appearance, postimpressionists focused on emotional or spiritual meanings that the subject might convey.
Although impressionist artists interpreted what they saw, their approach nevertheless remained rooted in observation of the natural world.
Postimpressionists conveyed their personal responses to the world around them through the use of strong, unnatur...
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 Wassily Kandinsky Biography, Paintings, Pictures, Prints - Respree.com
Born in Moscow, December 4, 1866, Kandinsky studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, from 1896 to 1900.
His early paintings were executed in a naturalistic style, but in 1909, after a trip to Paris during which he was highly impressed by the works of the fauves and postimpressionists, his paintings became more highly colored and loosely organized.
Around 1913 he began working on paintings that came to be considered the first totally abstract works in modern art; they made no reference to objects of the physical world and derived their inspiration and titles from music.
www.respree.com /biography/wassily-kandinsky.html   (433 words)

  
 ABSTRACT ART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A relatively short-lived movement in French painting (1905 - 1910), that revolutionized the concept of color in modern art.
The Fauves rejected the impressionist palette of soft, shimmering tones in favor of the violent colors used by the postimpressionists Paul Gauguin and Vincent Can Gogh for expressive emphasis.
They achieved a poetic energy through vigorous line, simplified yet dramatic surface pattern, and intense color.
www.woodridge68.org /goodrich/art/style.htm   (2015 words)

  
 PAUL-HENRI BOURGUIGNON - Page 9
November 18: Paul-Henri Bourguignon born in Brussels, Belgium, the son of a Flemish mother and a Walloon father.
Begins to paint, at first under Armand DePauw, then with A.-T. Bastien (1873-1955), a well-known, well-traveled Postimpressionist landscape painter, director of the Académie de Bruxelles and member of the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts.
While initially heavily influenced by the Impressionists and Postimpressionists, he is increasingly drawn to the work of the Flemish Expressionists, with their emphasis on form, and the French Fauves, with their stress on color; in this way he develops his own very personal synthesis.
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 Kultureflash - Headlines from London
He is working with ideas of representation, time's passage and remembrance.
However, unlike the Postimpressionists, it's a project he intends to continue through the rest of his life, and in that regard it is highly ambitious.
The Dutchman, perhaps somewhat like his fellow countryman Van Gogh, has reinvigorated this particular genre with both an emotional depth as well as a conceptual rigour ("to paint one portrait a day until the end of days").
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 Edward Steichen
He showed great talent and later went on to co-found the Photo-Secession group in New York with Clarence H. White and Alfred Stieglitz.
Up until 1914, Steichen specialized in soft-focused photographic images which were representative of the styles of the Postimpressionists and Symbolists.
From 1923-38, he practiced commercial photography in New York and was chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /westspringfieldhs/projects/001phrom/presteic.htm   (161 words)

  
 Edvard Munch information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Munch traveled to Paris in 1885, and his work began to show the influence of French painters — first of the impressionists, and then of the postimpressionists and of art nouveau design.
While stylistically influenced by the postimpressionists, Munch's subject matter is symbolist in content, depicting a state of mind rather than an external reality.
Munch maintained that the impressionism idiom did not suit his art.
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 Van Gogh Museum: Postimpression
The late-19th-century artists known as the Postimpressionists did not share a set style or subject.
But where the Impressionists saw fleeting light, the Postimpressionists looked for underlying structure or color harmonies.
This is why they are considered the forerunners of modern art.
www.vangoghmuseum.nl /bisrd/top-1-2-2-4-4-2.html   (95 words)

  
 Teddy Bear Art - Impressionism to Abstract
The decorative surface patterns of paintings, created by artists like Vincent van gogh, in the late 19th century are characteristic of Postimpressionism.
But more than just working with the aesthetics of their paintings, the Postimpressionists began to introduce an element of emotion into their art.
This was an important bridge between impressionism and expressionism.
www.bears.co.nz /dyk/art.htm   (276 words)

  
 NGA - Spirit of an Age: Introduction
At the core of the exhibition are ten paintings by one of the most remarkable artists of the age, the technically dazzling painter and indefatigable chronicler of Berlin life, Adolph Menzel.
A vital chapter in the history of the Nationalgalerie began at the turn of the twentieth century with the acquisition of paintings by the French impressionists and postimpressionists.
The emperor was outraged, as were leading academic artists.
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 Postimpressionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Whereas the Impressionists were concerned with only what is seen, the Postimpressionists were more concerned with subjective feelings
Whereas the Impressionists used broken brush strokes - the postimpressionists brush strokes became swirly and emotional
The Impressionists were mostly interested in landscapes and portraiture - the Postimpressionists work sometimes deployed symbols in order to convey a spiritual or mystical meaning
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 Concierge.com: Destination: Provence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
As you approach Provence, there is a magical moment when you finally leave the north of France behind: cypresses and red-tile roofs appear; you hear the screech of the cicadas and catch the scent of wild thyme and lavender.
Even along the highway, oleanders bloom on the center strip against a backdrop of austere, brightly lighted landscapes that inspired the Postimpressionists.
In Provence (bordered to the west by the Languedoc region and by the Mediterranean to the south and east), the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Romans all founded vital civilizations, leaving traces untouched by millennia of clean, dry air.
www.concierge.com /destination/provence/overview   (425 words)

  
 Putting Pablo to the Vote | TIME
The museum more or less assumed that they were there to stay—together with a dozen impressionists and postimpressionists that, in the eyes of some collectors, are even more valuable.
After a spirited campaign, the city opted last week to buy the Picassos by a vote of 32,118 to 27,190.
With the money assured, the city government cannily required the foundation, as part of the final transaction, to leave the impressionists and postimpressionists on loan for the next 15 years.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,844336,00.html   (575 words)

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