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9.10: Post-Impressionism
The Post-Impressionists pushed the tendencies toward abstraction even further than the Impressionists. They created a naturalistic sensibility in their rendering of light and separated color from form as an object of artistic concern. Like the Impressionists, they emphasized the artificiality of painting as a construct. They often tied emotional and symbolic meanings to their use of color, which often produced a sense of form's disintegration. Post-Impressionists often used much bolder (and thus less natural) colors in their art, aiming for a more expressive impact.
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Watch this video and read the article, which discusses a painting by the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). Note Cézanne's relationship to older artistic traditions and how he reflected on visual traditions (including Impressionism) and innovated through form.
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Watch this video, which describes the structure and color in Vincent Van Gogh's (1853–1890) painting Portrait of Joseph Roulin.
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Watch this video, which discusses artwork by Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). How is Gauguin's use of color innovative, according to the authors?
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Watch this video, which discusses artwork by Georges Seurat (1859–1891). What characteristics of his famous painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) were a reaction to Impressionism?
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