Post-Impressionism
or post-im·pres·sion·ism
[pohst-im-presh-uh-niz-uh m]
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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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Origin of Post-Impressionism
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post-impressionism
1910, from post- + impressionism.
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