Post-impressionism
•Systematic exploration of elements of design
•Furthering the fragmentation
•Increasing the expression
•injecting meaning into this exploration
Salon of 1910 dubs the term
Seurat
Bathing at Ausnieres, 1883
Boats, Low Tide 1885
light can be measured in particles as well as wavelengths
The eye mixes the colors
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90)
• Sold just one painting in his lifetime
• Was tortured throughout life with mental illness
• When moves to Paris from Holland, becomes friends with Seurat and Degas
• Moves to south of France, Arles, and befriends Gauguin
Bedroom at Arles, 1888
Van Gogh
From the dark realities of his native Dutch heritage….
to the beauty and light of Southern France
The Potato Eaters, 1885
Irises, 1888
Sunflowers, 1888
Van Gogh
The Starry Night, 1889 painted a year before his death
Wheatfield and Crows, 1890The place of Van Gogh’s suicide
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)• Left his middle class life as a
stockbroker and father of 5 to devote himself to art
• Lived with Van Gogh in Arles• Traveled to Tahiti to pursue
spiritual purity, the “noble savage”• Although missionaries had
introduced the less than ideal aspects of Europe to the Tahitians, Gauguin chose to paint the spiritual and the pure
Self-portrait, 1893
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, 1897
When Will You Marry?, 1892
Where Do We Come From? Where are We Going? , 1897Painted after his daughter dies and he falls into a deep depression
Gauguin• Replaces impressionistic
brushstrokes with large, flat areas of saturated color
• Loosely woven canvas shows through paint, giving added texture
• Was fascinated by Tahitian women, whom he felt embodied dignity and wisdom
Two Tahitians with Mango Blossoms, 1899
Symbolist andPost-impressionist
Paint the essence of the object
Day of the Gods, 1894•Tahitian god, Hina, in the center•3 figures represent birth, life and death•pool is abstract collection of vibrant forms, suggesting that art should reflect and symbolize underlying essences, not surface realities
GauguIn
Vision After the Sermon, 1888• Old testament story of Jacob wrestling with an angel, finally seeing the face of God• Gauguin is watching with the crowd of the faithful, but is not separated by the intersecting tree branch• The colors of the crowd are “earthbound black” but the inner vision space is intense, vivid, colorful
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864-1901)
• Son of a count with aristocratic lineage 1,000 years old
• Sickly as a child; broke left leg at 12 and right leg at 14 that did not mend; as an adult, was 4 ½’ tall
• Loved Parisian night life, brothels and bars; died an alcoholic
• Known for his fluid line and balanced composition
At the Moulin Rouge, 1892
Lautrec
• Showed bohemian life as it was, sometimes showy, sometimes seamy, sometimes without glamour
The Bed, 1901
Jane Avril , 1899 Two prostitutes, 1894
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Still Life with Apples, 1890
Still Life with Plaster Cupid, 1895
Self Portrait, 1875Cranky, self-absorbed and short-fused
Mme Cezanne in a Striped Skirt, 1877Hortense Fiquet, Cezanne’s counter-muse