Post-Impressionism

Briefly Post-Impressionism is an art movement that developed in the 1890s. It is characterized by a subjective approach to painting, Artists wanted to evoke emotion rather than realism in their work. While their styles, therefore, wildly varied, paintings completed in the Post-Impressionist manner share some similar qualities. These include symbolic motifs, unnatural color, and painterly brushstrokes. Many up-and-coming artists, however, found fault in the Impressionists' focus on style rather than subject matter. This group of artists included Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Henri Rousseau, which formed the Post-Impressionists.

Dear Grade 11s please refer to your booklets and read up on Post Impressionism artists and artworks, then answer the question below. 

1. Post Impressionism showed a more individualised approach. By referring to FIGURE 1a, critically analyse this work by Gauguin as a Post -Impressionist work.

Figure 1a- Vision after the sermon, 1888.

Refer to the following:

 Influences on Gauguin

 Treatment of space

 Treatment of shapes

 Treatment of colour

 Use of line

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