19 Post-Impressionism
19 Post-Impressionism
19 Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Cézanne
Seurat
Van Gogh
Gauguin
-Color sensation
-Flat tint
-Pointillism
-Symbolism
Post-Impressionism
• Color sensations to express reality
• Urban, industrial and rural themes
• Space acquires life
• Freedom from academic knowledge
• Capturing the fleeting moment
Post-Impressionism
• More of a time period, not a unified movement
• Form/color has to be bound
• Stabilizing the fleeting moment
• Different perspectives, not just times
• Going beyond sensations
• Patience in painting
Source: 8 Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Apples and Oranges
1895-1900, Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Musée
d'Orsay
Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Large Bathers
c. 1906, Oil on canvas, 208 × 249 cm,
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Source: 8 Seurat Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
Source: 8 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
The Models
1888, Oil on canvas, 39 x 49 cm, Private
collection
Source: 7 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
The Circus
1891, Oil on canvas, 180 x 148 cm, Musée
d'Orsay, Paris
Source: 7 Cézanne Van Gogh Gauguin Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Post-Impressionism
• Space acquires life
• Freedom from academic knowledge
• Different perspectives, not just times
• Going beyond sensations
• Form/color has to be bound
• Stabilizing the fleeting moment
Van Gogh
• Color sensations to express feelings
• Very quick painting (opposes Cézanne)
• Intense (opposes Cézanne)
• Form expressed by brush stokes
(opposes Cézanne)
Post-Impressionism
• Space acquires life
• Freedom from academic knowledge
• Different perspectives, not just times
• Going beyond sensations
• Form/color has to be bound
• Stabilizing the fleeting moment
Gauguin
• Color sensations to express the idea
• No texture (opposes Impressionism)
• Thought must be found in painting
(opposes Impressionism, but echoes Cézanne)
• Savage attitude (opposes Classicism)
Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
The Vision after the Sermon
1888, Oil on Canvas, 73 × 92 cm, National
Gallery of Scotland
Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch
92,4 x 72,4 cm, Oil on canvas, 1892, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Ta Matete (We Shall Not Go to Market Today)
1892, Oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Night Café
1888, Oil on canvas, 73 × 92 cm, Puschkin Museum, Moskow
Source: 8 Cézanne Seurat Van Gogh Post-Impressionism, St. Lawrence, 06/12/2015, Beaudoin
Suggested reading
-Gombrich, The Story of Art, p. 413-427
-Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p. 517-523
-Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 5, p. 133-139
-Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, p. 879-886