Post-Impressionist
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a word derived from
Post-Impressionism.
Post-Impressionismnouna 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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The Pearlman Foundation is dividing up its collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modernist art between LACMA, MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
Thus rejected, the painting languished, unloved, in the very studio it depicted until it appeared in one of the 20th century’s most influential exhibitions: the 1912 Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in London.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022
The critic Roger Fry had organised an exhibition of Post-Impressionist work which introduced Van Gogh's work to many art lovers who had barely known his name since his suicide near Paris 20 years before.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2019
It was the Musée de l’Orangerie, a structure that was built, in 1852, to shelter orange trees, and which now houses Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
Years later Vincent will be called a Post-Impressionist along with other artists such as Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, and Georges Seurat.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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