Post-Impressionism

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Post-Impressionism

• Moving from Impressionism
• Represent more emotion and expression through
  colour
• Did not have a common goal
• Became dissatisfied with the Impressionist style
  and pursued a variety of directions

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Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1879-1882
3-D shapes
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Cezanne, Mont Ste. Victoire, 1897-1900
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Cezanne, Large Bathers, 1898-1906
Man or Female?
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Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La
Grande Jatte, 1884-1886
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Do you see a difference in movement?
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Seurat, Chahut, 1889-1890
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Seurat, Model in Profile, 1886
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Van Gogh, Wheat Field and Cypress Trees, 1889
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Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889
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Van Goghs Sunflowers
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Van Gogh, Self Portraits
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Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon Jacob Wrestling
with the Angel, 1888
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Gauguin, The Meal, 1891
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Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we?
Where are we going? 1897
Christ-like young woman
Old woman
Young girl
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Gauguins Tahitian Paintings
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Symbolism

• Had diverse styles
• Withdrew from society
• Rejection of the modern
• world and materialism
• In favour of irrational
• states of mind
• Preoccupation with evil
• and darkness

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Toulouse Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1893-1895
Lautrec
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Munch, The Scream, 1893
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Munch, Spring, 1888
Life
Death
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Redon, Smiling Spider, 1881
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Redon, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon that Mounts
Towards Infinity, 1882
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Moreau, The Apparition, 1876