Post-Impressionism

Postimpressionism

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Postimpressionism

• The development of the Impressionism led to forms being dissolved and the loss of the drawing

• At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th other painters, starting from the impressionism, it developed a more personal style, that is going to be the advance of some of the pictorial movements of the 29th century.

Postimpressionism

• Some of the characteristics of the movement are:– The recovery of the importance of

drawing– The worry about capturing not only

the light but also expression of both, things and people

General characteristics

• Interest in building the shape, the drawing and the expression of objects and human images

• Equilibrium between the volume and the pure aesthetic taste (Cezanne)


• Conception of the painting as a combination of geometrical elements (Cezanne)

• Use of colour contrasts for defining plans and forms.

• Pictorial effects based on the structural search for spaces and chromatic effects


• Use of pure colour with a great emotive charge (Van Gogh) or modulate (Gauguin)

• Creations full of imagination with curve brushstrokes that tend to express the anguish and internal depression (Van Gogh)


• Interest for the exotic (Gauguin) and the low classes life and entertainment (Toulouse-Lautrec)

• Creation of simplified and static compositions, looking for harmony of the chromatic masses closed by thigh profiles (Gauguin)

Influences

• From the impressionist, the taste for the colour contrasts, mainly in Cezanne

• From Rubens, the neo-impressionist and the Japanese cards the chromatic richness, pure colours and Van Gogh’s curve line

• From the exotic sculpture of Oceania Gauguin’s primitivism

Painters

• Gauguin:– He began in the Impressionism with

Pisarro– He abandoned the comfort of his life

to live in Paris, Bretagne and Tahiti– In Tahiti he painted his series of

Tahitian women

Painters

– He made an expressive use of colour, in strong tonalities, lively and frequently arbitrary

– He painted big plans limited by curved lineal rhythms

– He had to main subjects:• The Tahitian exotism• The primitivism of Bretagne

Painters

– His work is a reference for the symbolism

– His sense of colour was influential on fauves and expressionists

– He renounced to the perspective– He suppressed the model and shades

and identified the sense of flat the same as in Japanese painting.

Painters

• Cezanne:– His painting recovered the volume

thanks to the geometry, drawing and the definition of the forms through the building brushstrokes

– He did not renounce to the colour of high intensity with contrasts and coloured shades.

Painters

– In his paintings there is special attention to the foreground

– He created distortions due to the use of several points of view, mainly in his still-lives

– His painting is the origin of the Cubism

– He influences in colourist artists such as Matisse.

Painters

• Van Gogh:– He was established in Arles,

enthusiastic about the light of Provence

– He painted curved, wavy images and landscapes

– The flame shapes represented his internal matters

Painters

– He was a passionate of colour as the vehicle to express his frequent depressions and anguishes

– His brushstroke is very characteristic, wavy, sinuous, cursive and thick

– Colours are sometimes aggressive with infrequent contrasts (yellow over orange)

Painters

– He opened the way for the 20th century expressionism

– He painted :• Landscapes, • Flowers• Portraits• Self-portraits

Painters

• Toulouse-Lautrec:– He reflected the atmosphere of night

clubs:• Dancers• Singers• Prostitutes

– He was the impellor of wall adverts

Painters

– In his technique the characteristics are:• Drawing technique• Caption of movement• Ironical charge• Caricature • Flat representations.

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