Post-Impressionism

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art historical period art movement

Post-Impressionism was a late 19th-century art movement that evolved from Impressionism and is characterized by more expressive color, symbolic content, and formal experimentation by artists such as Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form	Occurrences
French Post-Impressionism	4
Post‑Impressionism	3
French Post-Impressionists	1
Post-Impressionism (through Cézanne’s works)	1
Post-Impressionism (through Paul Gauguin)	1
Post-Impressionism (via Paul Gauguin)	1
Post-Impressionist art	1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art historical period ⓘ art movement ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ
follows	Impressionism ⓘ
hasArtForm	drawing ⓘ painting ⓘ printmaking ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	distinctive brushstrokes ⓘ distorted forms for expressive effect ⓘ emphasis on artist’s inner vision ⓘ emphasis on composition ⓘ emphasis on structure ⓘ experimentation with perspective ⓘ expressive color ⓘ formal experimentation ⓘ interest in symbolism and spirituality ⓘ rejection of naturalistic depiction of light ⓘ subjective expression ⓘ symbolic content ⓘ thick application of paint ⓘ use of vivid colors ⓘ
hasCoreIdea	emphasize artist’s subjective response to subject matter ⓘ explore personal symbolism ⓘ move beyond Impressionism’s focus on optical realism ⓘ organize composition through geometric structure ⓘ use color and form to convey emotion and meaning ⓘ
hasEndTime	early 20th century ⓘ
hasKeyWork	A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 ⓘ surface form: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Mont Sainte-Victoire series ⓘ The Starry Night ⓘ surface form: Starry Night The Bedroom ⓘ The Card Players ⓘ The Starry Night ⓘ surface form: The Night Café Vision After the Sermon ⓘ surface form: The Vision of the Sermon The Yellow House ⓘ Vision After the Sermon ⓘ Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ⓘ
hasMovementSubtype	Cloisonnism ⓘ Neo-Impressionism ⓘ surface form: Les Nabis Neo-Impressionism ⓘ Pont-Aven School ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ surface form: Symbolism (in painting) Synthetism ⓘ
hasNotableProponent	Georges Seurat ⓘ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ⓘ Odilon Redon ⓘ Paul Cézanne ⓘ Paul Gauguin ⓘ Pierre Bonnard ⓘ Vincent van Gogh ⓘ Édouard Vuillard ⓘ Émile Bernard ⓘ
hasStartTime	late 19th century ⓘ
influenced	Cubism ⓘ Expressionism ⓘ Fauvism ⓘ modern art ⓘ
influencedBy	Impressionism ⓘ Japanese art ⓘ Realism ⓘ Symbolism ⓘ

Referenced by (158)

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Katsushika Hokusai → influenced → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Synthetism → influenced → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

“Charing Cross Bridge, London” by André Derain → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

subject surface form: "Charing Cross Bridge, London"

Bloomsbury Group → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Blue Period → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Die Brücke → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Duncan Grant → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Expressionism → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Fauvism → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Gabriele Münter → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Post-Impressionism

Piet Mondrian → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Line) → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Roger Fry → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Post-Impressionists

The Joy of Life → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

The Red Room (Harmony in Red) → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Vanessa Bell → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Post-Impressionism

Wassily Kandinsky paintings → influencedBy → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Post‑Impressionism

Pont-Aven School → influencedMovement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Les Tendances nouvelles → mainSubject → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Almond Blossoms → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Arles period of Vincent van Gogh → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Armand Seguin → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Autoportrait au chapeau de paille → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Breton Women in the Meadow → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Café Terrace at Night → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Charles Filiger → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Charles Laval → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Divan Japonais → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Duncan Grant → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Essais sur l’art → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Georges Lacombe → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Georges Seurat → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Henri-Edmond Cross → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Henry Moret → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Irises → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Jacob Meyer de Haan → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Jacques Raverat → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Jan Verkade → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Jane Avril → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

subject surface form: Jane Avril (poster)

Ker-Xavier Roussel → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

La Moisson → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Le Pardon de Pont-Aven → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Les Nabis → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Les Pèlerins d’Emmaüs → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Les Tendances nouvelles → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Louis Anquetin → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Maxime Maufra → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ

Maximilien Luce → movement → Post-Impressionism ⓘ