post-Impressionism
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post-Im·pres·sion·ism
(also Post-Im·pres·sion·ism)
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n.
the work or style of a varied group of late 19th-century and early 20th-century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted against the naturalism of the Impressionists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern that led to the development of expressionism.
DERIVATIVES:
post-Im·pres·sion·ist n. & adj.
post-Im·pres·sion·is·tic adj.
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Hawaii hosts first major impressionist exhibit.(Honolulu)(Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism and the Modern Era)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art Business News; 4/1/2004; 596 words
; ...exhibition titled "Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism and the Modern Era." The show features more than 50...Hawaii. SHOW FACTS "Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Postimpressionism and the Modern Era" April 8 through June 6 Honolulu Academy...
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Postimpressionism
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 8/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ALMOST immediately, Rory Bremner notices I've typed up my questions, forcing me to admit to an advanced case of anal retentiveness. "It looks like you've done research," he says. I wave a stack of cuttings and tease him about a long-ago story from this very magazine, in which our intrepid reporter
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Impressions along the Seine.(Arts)(Painting)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Renoir to undertake the complexity of the very large "Boating Party." Renoir's painting also looks forward to postimpressionism and the next important out-of-doors painting, Georges Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande...
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Oblaka v kontse veka.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1994; ; 688 words
; ...H. Auden"), nature, vignettes of city life in Russia ("A Veteran"), synesthetic conceits ("After Postimpressionism," featuring a marvelous image of white on white), poems on the poet's craft, gnomic and confessional poems...
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Who is right about home schooling? My colleague James - or everyone else?
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/23/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...tools of artistic technique before charging them with the task of vaulting 10,000 years to a state of exquisite postImpressionism; the job of the art teacher is to bring out any latent ability within the child, to develop it -- and make it...
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'Wild' expressions at National Gallery; French works on display.(SHOW)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/31/2004; 700+ words
; ...have descended on the National Gallery of Art. Often confused with painters from other art movements within postimpressionism, the fauves, including such stars as Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de...
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The Films of Vincente Minnelli.
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...bohemian domains of art." The author singles out Minnelli's specific borrowings from art nouveau, impressionism, postimpressionism, and surrealism, but he is no less concerned with the appropriations of "urban Africanism" in Cabin in the...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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National Gallery link for unique display; Intrique of Salome: Exhibition highlights painter's obsession with his subject.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/23/2002; 662 words
; ...undergoing something of a re-evaluation by scholars, some of whom see his work as crucial to the development of PostImpressionism and Symbolism, inspiring more celebrated artists such as Gaugin, Picasso, Seurat and Matisse. CAPTION(S...
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VISUAL ARTS: Rockwell show explores artist's genius, limits.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 8/31/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to broaden his skills, is heavily impastoed, an absolute no-no for magazine and book publishing work. Was postimpressionism a secret interest of his? It is valuable to see what the artist could do (or tried to do) when he wasn't being...
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Modern, then and now.(evaluation of modernism)
Magazine article from: Town & Country; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...arts, modernist movements from the late 19th through the 20th century included, in loose chronological order, Postimpressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, de Stijl, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Op...
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postimpressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
postimpressionism term coined by Roger Fry to refer to the work of a number of French painters active at the end of the 19th cent. who, although...
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impressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...impressionists' successors. See postimpressionism and articles on individual artists...of Impressionism Impressionism and postimpressionism ran their course and produced aesthetic...three decades, impressionism and postimpressionism became increasingly popular, as...
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Scottish Colourists
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...the first ‘modern’ Scottish artists; certainly they were the main channel through which PostImpressionism reached their country. None of them was represented in Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions of 1910...
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pointillism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pointillism : see postimpressionism .
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landscape painting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...highest position in artists' esteem that it had yet held. Landscape also became a principal source material of postimpressionism . The exponents of surrealism revealed the fearful power of imaginary landscape. In addition, many of the 20th...
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