Post-Impressionism
or post-im·pres·sion·ism
[pohst-im-presh-uh-niz-uh m]
- 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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Origin of Post-Impressionism
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The survey will give me occasion for stating some of the things that Post-Impressionism is and some that it is not.
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Post-Impressionism is accused of being a negative and destructive creed.
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Post-Impressionism, therefore, implies no violent break with the past.
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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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Word Origin and History for post-impressionism
n.
1910, from post- + impressionism.
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