1. Post-Impressionism

2. History • Late 19th Century • 1886-1914 • The artists began as Impressionist, but broke away from the style • Rejected its limitations on focusing on color and light, not spontaneous, more form and order. • The basis of many 20th century works

3. Characteristics • Gave more definition and form to subject matter • Formal order and structure • Used vibrant, expressive, and arbitrary color • Thick application of paint • Distinctive brush strokes • Self-Expression vs. Representation

4. Artists • Georges Seurat • Paul Cezanne • Paul Gauguin • Vincent Van Gogh • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

5. Georges Seurat • Developed the technique, Pointillism • Rather then spontaneous broken brushstrokes • Very planned and carefully applied mixing of color • Optically mixed complementary colors • Should fuse together from a distance

6. Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

7. Seurat, La Cirque

8. Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres

9. Seurat, Cirque Sideshow

10. Cirque Side Show Detail

11. Paul Cezanne • Was mentored by Pissarro • Broke down reality to see the underlying geometry in nature • Work has a permanent look, not a fleeting glance • His work • Eliminate ariel and linear perspective • Lay flat • Used color to indicate depth • Inspired Cubism

12. Cezanne, Mount Sainte Victoire

13. Cezanne, L “Estaque

14. Cezanne, Maison Maria on the way to Chateau Noir

15. Cezanne, Still Life with an Open Drawer

16. Cezanne, The Basket of Apples

17. Paul Gauguin • Flattening of form. • Refused to reproduce • Intensified arbitrary color • Spent a lot of time in Tahiti • Paved the way to Primitivism • Had a friendship with Van Gogh

18. Gauguin, Swineherd

19. Gauguin, Les Alyscamps

20. Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape

21. Gauguin, The Seed of the Aereoi

22. Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers

23. Vincent Van Gogh • Dutch • Inspired Expressionism • Thick Paint • Emotionally charged • Painted hundreds of Self-Portraits • Did lots of series of paintings on a variety of subjects. • Went through a lot of spurts of depression. • Made over 2,100 works of art

24. Van Gogh, Starry Night

25. Van Gogh, Irises

26. Van Gogh, Wheatfield with Cypresses

27. Van Gogh, Café Terrace of the Place du Forum Aries

28. Van Gogh, Vase with Twelve Sunflowers

29. Van Gogh, Bedroom in Aries

31. Van Gogh, Asylum Garden at Aries

32. Self-Portraits

35. Slide Identification • Get out a piece of paper • Title Paper • “Slide ID Post-Impressionism” • Write your Name, Date, Period • Number your Paper #1-7 • Answer • Full Name of the Artist

36. #1

37. #2

38. #3

39. #4

40. #5

41. #6

42. #7

43. #1 Georges Seurat

44. #2 Paul Gauguin

45. Paul Cezanne #3

46. #4 Georges Seurat

47. Vincent Van Gogh #5

48. Paul Cezanne #6

49. #7 Vincent Van Gogh