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impressionism
impressionism in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to achieve brilliance and luminosity. It was loosely structured in that many p... Read more
Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas , 1865-1935, French composer and critic. He was influenced by both the romanticism of Wagner and the impressionism of Debussy. His compositions are few, the best known being a symphonic poem, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897), and an opera, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (1907). ... Read more
impressionism
impressionism in music, a French movement in the late 19th and early 20th cent. It was begun by Debussy in reaction to the dramatic and dynamic emotionalism of romantic music, especially that of Wagner. Reflecting the impressionist schools of French painting and letters, Debussy developed a style i... Read more
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann , 1847-1935, German genre painter and etcher. He went to Paris in 1873, where he was impressed by the Barbizon school of painters. In Holland he was influenced by Frans Hals and Jozef Israëls . His early works were realistic, but beginning about 1890 he developed a style clo... Read more
modern art
modern art art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture ). Nearly every phase of modern a... Read more
Othon Friesz
Othon Friesz (Achille Émile Othon Friesz) , 1879-1949, French painter. He studied under Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts, along with Matisse, Marquet, and Rouault. Early influenced by impressionism, he adopted the bold, colorful style of the painters involved in the development of ... Read more
Christian Krohg
Christian Krohg , 1852-1925, Norwegian genre and portrait painter and author. After studying on the continent, Krohg returned to Norway in 1878 and became a well-known advocate of impressionism. He later taught in Paris and in 1909 became director of the Oslo Academy. In The Struggle for Existence ... Read more
John Rewald
John Rewald , 1912-94, American art historian, b. Berlin. Rewald emigrated to the United States in 1941. He was recognized as a foremost authority on late 19th-century art. His books include studies of Maillol (1935), Gauguin (1938), Seurat (1943), Bonnard (1948), Cézanne (1948), Pissarro (19... Read more
Max Slevogt
Max Slevogt , 1868-1932, German painter. Slevogt, together with Max Liebermann and Lovis Corinth, was among the principal exponents of German impressionism and was influenced by Millet and Courbet. A prolific painter, he attempted to capture movement through broad, informal brush work. His portrait ... Read more
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax 1883-1953, English composer, studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London. His early works, in an elaborately chromatic style, did not find great favor with the public, but works in a simpler style, composed after 1910, brought him recognition as an outstanding compose... Read more

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post-impressionism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia post-impressionism Various movements in painting that developed ( c. 1880– c. 1905), especially in France, as a result of or reaction to impressionism... Read more
Gauguin, (Eugène Henri) Paul
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Gauguin, (Eugène Henri) Paul (1848–1903) French painter, one of the greatest artists of post-impressionism . In his early career, Gauguin exhibited (1881–86) with the impressionists in Paris. The Vision After the Sermon (1888... Read more
John, Augustus Edwin
Book article from: World Encyclopedia John, Augustus Edwin (1878–1961) Welsh painter. Although he was influenced by the Old Masters and by post-impressionism , John's high-toned colour and solidity of drawing were unique. His works include Galway (1916) and the portraits... Read more
Alupi, Calin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...The works of Romanian artist Calin Alupi (1906 – 1988) remain sought after as representative of Romanian post-impressionism in contemporary art. His most critically acclaimed works were done in pastel and oil. Calinic "Calin" Alupi was... Read more
Grant, Duncan James Corrow
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...James Corrow (1885–1978) Scottish painter and designer, one of the first British artists to be influenced by post-impressionism . He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group . A pioneer of British abstract art, his paintings include Abstract kinetic... Read more
Armory Show
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...greatest excitement. It looked back to impressionism , tracing the history of modernism through neo-impressionism and post-impressionism with examples of work by Gauguin , Van Gogh , and the Nabis, but came right up to date with examples of cubism... Read more
Van Gogh, Vincent
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...influenced studies of working-class life. In 1886, he left Holland for Paris, where his palette was transformed by post-impressionism , experimenting briefly with pointillism . In 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles, Provence, where he was joined by Gauguin... Read more
Corot, (Jean-Baptiste) Camille
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...unlike the precisely observed scenes of his earlier work. He was an important influence on Paul Cézanne and post-impressionism in general. http://www.metmuseum.org; http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk; http://www.clevelandart.org Read more
Cézanne, Paul
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...on this principle. Cézanne ranks as one of the great influences on modern art, especially cubism . See also post-impressionism http://www.metmuseum.org; http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk; http://www.nga.gov Read more
William H. Johnson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...overseas. In 1926 Johnson sailed for Paris. In Paris his art was influenced by such popular modern movements as Post-Impressionism and Expressionism. Specifically, his works drew from the styles of Paul Cezanne (French, 1839-1906) and Chaim Soutine... Read more

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Post-Impressionism
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Post-Impressionism. Term applied to various trends in...considered the central figures of Post-Impressionism. These three artists varied greatly...Neo-Impressionism . The general drift of Post-Impressionism was to lead away from the naturalism... Read more
post-Impressionism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English post-Im·pres·sion·ism (also Post-Im·pres·sion·ism ) • 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 Read more
Gogh, Vincent van
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Gogh, Vincent van. See EXPRESSIONISM and POST-IMPRESSIONISM . Read more
Amiet, Cuno
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Amiet, Cuno (1868–1961). Swiss painter (and occasional sculptor), a leading exponent of Symbolism and Post-Impressionism in his country. He was born in Solothurn and studied locally, then at the Munich Academy, 1886–8, and the... Read more
post
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...x2018;after’. post-bellum occurring or existing after a war, in particular the American Civil War. post-Impressionism the work or style of a varied group of late 19th-century and early 20th-century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin... Read more
Thorn-Prikker, Johan
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...1868–1932). Dutch painter and designer. Early in his career he passed through phases of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism , then changed to an elaborate linear style with which he became a leading exponent of Symbolism and Art Nouveau... Read more
Septem
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...Finnish painters formed in 1910. The members aimed to introduce colouristic freedom, based on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism , to Finnish art. They were partly inspired by an exhibition held in Helsinki in 1904, at which works by the great... Read more
Fergusson, J. D.
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...mainly of landscapes and figure subjects) and occasional sculptor, one of the Scottish Colourists who introduced Post-Impressionism to their country. He was born at Leith and began to study medicine in Edinburgh, but he gave this up for art. Apart... Read more
Bell, Clive
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...writer on art. In 1910 he met Roger Fry and quickly became his chief apostle in helping to spread an appreciation of Post-Impressionism in Britain. Bell helped with the organization of Fry's first Post-Impressionist exhibition (1910), and he chose... Read more
Giacometti, Alberto
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...mainly in Paris. He was the son of Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933), a painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism . After short periods at the École des Arts et Métiers, Geneva, and in Italy, he moved to Paris, where... Read more

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Post-Impressionism to World War II.(ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 92 words ; N6758 2004-030885 1-4051-1152-6 Post-Impressionism to World War II. Title main entry. Ed. by Debbie Lewer. (Blackwell anthologies in art history) Blackwell Publishing, [c]2006 415... Read more
Andrew Forge at Robert Miller. (New York).
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/2003; ; 410 words ; Andrew Forge's elegant paintings present an erudite synthesis of developments from Post-Impressionism through 20th- century abstraction. The methodological clarity of his pointillist technique may owe as much to his early study with... Read more
Exploring movement and rhythm with hard-edge painting.(Painting With Style And Fair)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 4/1/2005; ; 510 words ; My fourth-graders had been studying painting periods such as Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Abstractionism and Surrealism. We had looked at paintings by Wood, Miro, Picasso. Kandinsky, Matisse, van Gogh and Renoir... Read more
Nachume Miller at E.M. Donahue.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/1996; ; 377 words ; ...cyberspace and complexity theory. However, the real context for these large, enveloping fields of pulsating color is the Post-Impressionism of Seurat and late Monet and the lyrical Abstract Expressionism of Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler. Miller... Read more
Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner and Zwirner & Wirth.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/2007; ; 441 words ; ...John Constable's rustic English landscapes, while LeRoy Neiman does a creditable imitation of certain aspects of Post-Impressionism. In Lisa Yuskavage's paintings, the line is drawn between a diverse pantheon of Western masters and the favored... Read more
"The Art of Bloomsbury".
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/1999; ; 450 words ; ...Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry (who coined the term Post-Impressionism in 1910 for the pivotal exhibition he hoped would...interracial couples doing beastly things in the name of Post-Impressionism. With this reexamination, who knows what new Bloomsbury... Read more
Crystal Productions.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Video Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Children's Bookwatch; 3/1/2006; 130 words ; ...leading artists, offer viewers in grade 7 and up a tour of twenty-four artistic masterworks apiece. Romanesque To Post-impressionism (1562903535, $29.95) explores paintings, sculpture, and architecture of important artists from the 1100s to the... Read more
Things I love; the many collections of William I. Koch.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 151 words ; ...to the present, that are united in their expression of movement, light, and love of life. Impressionism, cubism, post-impressionism, and American art are well represented, with many color plates in an oversized format (10.75x11 ). In addition... Read more
'Feast of Color': the Merzbacher-Mayer Collection at the Zurich Kunsthaus expresses a personal and passionate relationship with colour in some 200 paintings and sculptures that span more than a century of art history.(ART & CULTURE)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 4/1/2006; 521 words ; ...unique path. Works in the Merzbacher-Mayer Collection Feast of Color represent a range of styles: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Pointillism, Futurism, Constructivism, Cubism and Concrete art. The common thread that unites the works... Read more
Paul Signac.(painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2001; ; 320 words ; ...fluid. Meetings even included critics as well as painters. There followed what the critic Roger Fry called in 1910 post-impressionism, which included artists such as Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. This was closely followed by neo-impressionism... Read more