Impressionism and Post-Impressionism - Post Impressionism - Post-Impressionist Painting
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How would you describe Post-Impressionist painting?
- Post-Impressionist painters wanted more personal interpretation and expression, as well as greater psychological depth.
- Placed more emphasis on composition and form.
- Was not a countermovement to Impressionism, but tried to improve it.
- Post-Impressionist worked (and lived) in isolation.
- Started in France in the 1880s.
Who is called the "Father of Abstract Art?"
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906).
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was already making pretty "weird" art for his time. Why was his art "accepted" at the time and no rejected?
- Because Gauguin used "primitive" subjects.
- That is to say, he painted about subjects that were seen as primitive and pagan, by the Western art commissioners at the time.
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