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Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour.
Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
Synthetism is a term used by Post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work stylistically from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism , and later to Symbolism . [ 1 ]
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 10 December 1884 – 17 January 1885; Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, American Art Association, New York, April and May 1886. Organised by Paul Durand-Ruel. Impressionist exhibition, Paris, 15 May–15 June 1886 Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte shown for the first time.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Cloisonnism is a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours. The term was coined by critic Édouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants , in March 1888. [ 1 ]
Post-Impressionism Le Pont Neuf (c. 1912) Hippolyte Petitjean ( French pronunciation: [ipɔlit pətiʒɑ̃] ; 11 September 1854, Mâcon – 18 September 1929, Paris) was a French Post-Impressionist painter who practiced the technique of pointillism .
In 1841, a little-known American painter named John G. Rand invented a simple improvement without which the Impressionist movement could not have occurred: the small, flexible tin tube with removable cap in which oil paints could be stored. [2] Oil paints kept in such tubes stayed moist, usable, and portable.
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.