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Post-Impressionism
or post-im·pres·sion·ism
[ pohst-im-presh-uh-niz-uhm ]
noun
- a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin.
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Other Words From
- Post-Im·pression·ist adjective noun
- Post-Im·pression·istic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Post-Impressionism1
1905–10; post- + Impressionism ( def )
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Example Sentences
Surely here is the home of Post Impressionism and of Futurism.
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Ibsen and eugenics and post impressionism have never darkened the door of his consciousness.
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Like all sound revolutions, Post-Impressionism is nothing more than a return to first principles.
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Post-Impressionism is nothing but the reassertion of the first commandment of art—Thou shalt create form.
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Post-Impressionism can no more make good artists than good laws can make good men.
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