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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

Encyclopedia entries related to "Post-Impressionism"

impressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Modern Life (1984); W. H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (1984); D. Bomford et al., Impressionism (1990); B. Denvir, Encyclopedia of Impressionism (1990); C. Moffett, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (1991).
post-impressionism
Book article from: World Encyclopedia post-impressionism Various movements in painting that...France, as a result of or reaction to impressionism . Roger Fry, the British painter...more accurately described as neo-impressionism . The work of these artists varies...
Armory Show
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...section of the exhibition caused the 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...
painting
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Romanticism . Both schools were superseded, first by impressionism and then by a succession of new movements in...centuries. Most of these movements – impressionism, post-impressionism , symbolism , fauvism , cubism , Dada , and...
Cézanne, Paul
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...Impressionist period. He later shifted away from Impressionism in favour of a deeper, more analytical approach...influences on modern art, especially cubism . See also post-impressionism http://www.metmuseum.org; http://www...
Gauguin, (Eugène Henri) Paul
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...French painter, one of the greatest artists of post-impressionism . In his early career, Gauguin exhibited (1881...work in Gauguin's break with the naturalism of impressionism . His belief that form and pattern should represent...
French art
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...which increased artistic freedom. These began with the realism of Gustave Courbet , and culminated in impressionism , post-impressionism , and symbolism . This creativity continued into the 20th century, when the School of Paris fostered...
Natalia Goncharova
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Europe. At the time she was drawn to Impressionism and Divisionism, styles associated...she was also represented in the 1912 Post-Impressionist exhibition organized...styles at the time in Western art. Like Impressionism, Rayonism concentrates on the light...
Gerhard Richter
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...century. His diverse paintings cover a range of artistic genres, from Realism and Naturalism to Impressionism, Pop Art, Conceptualism, and Post-Abstract Expressionism. Richter of ten painted from photographs, either clipped from newspapers...
Albert Roussel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...conservative in that he held out against Claude Debussy's impressionism and based his instruction on a thorough knowledge of earlier...1902 he became a teacher of counterpoint at the Schola, a post he held until 1914, when he resigned to enter the French...

Dictionary entries related to "Post-Impressionism"

Post-Impressionism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Post-Impressionism Term applied to various...that developed from Impressionism or in reaction against...The general drift of Post-Impressionism was...the notion of Post-Impressionism to cover these developments...
Impressionism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...The name ‘Impressionism’, in fact...outside France adopted Impressionism wholesale, but many lightened...the optical principles of Impressionism a scientific basis, and the Post-Impressionists began...
post-Impressionism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English post-Im·pres·sion·ism (also Post-Im·pres·sion·ism...led to the development of expressionism. DERIVATIVES: post-Im·pres·sion·ist n...
Rewald, John
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...field of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist scholarship...works, The History of Impressionism (1946, 4th edn. 1973) and Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin...interpretation); The History of Impressionism used to enjoy the...
Meier-Graefe, Julius
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...x2019; ( The History of Impressionism , 1946, 4th edn., 1973...Lautrec, Seurat, Signac , neo-impressionism in general, Rodin , Puvis...Gauguin , etc’ ( Post-Impressionism , 1956, 3rd edn., 1978...
Barnes, Dr Albert C.
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...turn his attention from the Barbizon School to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism ; thereafter modern French painting remained...94), author of celebrated histories of Impressionism (1946, 4th edn., 1973) and Post-Impressionism...
Armory Show
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...artists — styles such as Symbolism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Futurism. European participants...garde European art, particularly Cubism, Impressionism, and Futurism. Critics also denounced other...
Hermitage
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...painting and in French painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (almost all the great figures of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism are well represented). Many of the French paintings come from the collections of two Moscow businessmen...
London Group
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...1918), who wrote that the London Group had ‘done for Post-Impressionism in England what the New English Art Club did in a previous generation for Impressionism ’. By the time of the Second World War the group had lost...
Giacometti, Alberto
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...the son of the painter Giovanni Giacometti (1868–1933), whose work was influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism . Although he was to spend almost all his career in France, he retained great affection for Switzerland...

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Impressionism.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...other artists took the ideas of Impressionism and changed them to create...by Paul Cezanne are called "Post-Impressionism." Those by Paul Gauguin are...Pointillism" (or "Neo-Impressionism"). * Probably the best...
"AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM'; ROCHESTER SHOW PROVIDES A SOLID SURVEY OF ARTISTS FROM THE PERIOD.(Stars)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 5/25/2008; 700+ words ; ...where the Americans pushed Impressionism beyond even what the French...Prendergast clearly moves beyond Impressionism to a post-Impressionist style as demonstrated...new insights into American Impressionism. It simply provides a solid...
In Baltimore, Faulty Impressionism; Disjointed Timeline Nearly Masks Portrait Exhibit's Finest Faces
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/14/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...guarantee of gate. "Faces of Impressionism: Portraits From American...impressionist portraits, and post-impressionist portraits...titles as "Masterpieces of Impressionism," used to be enough to...and thinner slices. Post-impressionism was the theme of a fine show...
A BRUSH WITH GREATNESS IMPRESSIONISM & SCOTLAND IMPRESSIONISM & SCOTLAND FESTIVAL: VISUAL ARTS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 7/27/2008; ; 700+ words ; IMPRESSIONISM & SCOTLAND National Gallery...wasn't done years ago. Impressionism & Scotland is one of those...has turned out to be. Impressionism & Scotland shows how Scottish...French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists before...
Farewell Impressionism?Buyers Snatch Up a Vanishing Breed
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/13/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...an expensive farewell to Impressionism could be observed along with...however vaguely, with Impressionism suggests that there was more...of ''Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art...superficial influence of Impressionism is moderately perceptible...
ART REVIEW ORIGINS OF IMPRESSIONISM: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, Manhattan. Through Jan. 8. 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, until 8:45 p.m. Friday and Satur
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 9/25/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...business nowadays, it's impressionism. Everyone loves impressionism. People who don't even...impressionist shows, and post-impressionist shows, and...impressionist show. "The Origins of Impressionism" focuses on a single decade...
Gauguin--and Zaha Hadid: a major exhibition on Gauguin and Impressionism at the Ordrupgaard collection in Copenhagen was overwhelmed by Zaha Hadid's unsympathetic new exhibition galleries, writes Martin Bailey. It should look better at the Kimbell.(Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Zaha Hadid. 'Gauguin and Impressionism' was the inaugural show...The focus of 'Gauguin and Impressionism' is on the years 1875-87...what was later to be dubbed Post-Impressionism. Gauguin's Impressionist...
'Impressionism': The Spirit of America
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/29/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...recent walk-through of "American Impressionism: Paintings From the Phillips Collection...show on the "American" over the "impressionism" is not its artists' slavish derivation...they painted, and loved. AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM: PAINTING FROM THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION...
EARLY 20TH-CENTURY IMPRESSIONISM REIGNS AT NEW WEATHERFORD GALLERY.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 10/9/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...they distribute a catalog focusing on American Impressionism and the Hudson River School, although lately they have expanded into French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, responding to interest from the high-tech...
After Impressionism: The End of an Era Christie's Redefines Art
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/6/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...end of an era during which Impressionism led the market. This momentous...of his incarnations) with post-World War II schools down...London, in 1958, when Impressionism became the art-market locomotive...evident to professionals that Impressionism was fading away from the...