Post impressionism


Post impressionism

In this blog I will be discussing the term impressionism and the reasons behind its existence, I will further more discuss about its characteristic and principles, where and when it was developed as well as provide some examples of the topic at hand.

What is impressionism?

Post impressionism is a movement mainly art concerned, that was developed in the 1890’s and was influenced by many approaches. Approaches that were mainly subjective as artist preferred to express emotion rather than realism in their work. Even though post impressionism consisted of many styles that widely varied, some paintings did however share a few similar qualities and characteristics, some of these included symbolic motifs, unnatural colours and painterly brush strokes. (Richman, no: 2017).

Post-impressionist had a strong believe that a work of art should not revolve around style, aesthetic approach no process but instead impose emphasis on symbolism, communicating messages from the artists own subconscious. According to Paul Cézanne, “a work of art which did not begin in emotion is not a work of art.” (Richman, no: 2017).

Most important artists that played a role in the development of Impressionism

·         Paul Ce’zanne

·         Paul Gauguin

·         Vincent van Gogh

·         George Seurat

·         Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

·         Henri Rousseau





Artwork examples:
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)



 Vincent van Gogh, ‘The Starry Night’ (1889)

Henri Rousseau, ‘The Dream’, (1910)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ‘At the Moulin Rough’ (1892-1895)

Paul Ce’zanne, ‘The Bathers’ (1898-1905)




Analyses Old and Modern artwork.

Post-impressionist artwork

The artwork I will be focussing on is the pyramid of skulls by Paul Ce'zanne. This painting was done by a post-impressionist artist, French artist whom painted the artwork on canvas with oil which was completed during 1901, when the artist was in his sixties. (tottallyhistory.com)
Paul Ce’zaane, ‘Pyramid of Skulls’ (1901)




Paul Ce’zaane, ‘Pyramid of Skulls’ (1901), In terms of composition the pyramid of skulls; even though has some realism feel to it, is done with brush strokes, a number of paint colours, and certain amount of purposely emitted light to create a dark theme surrounding. The painting features four human skulls, three of which face forward towards the viewers direction thus giving the impression that they are starring at the viewer. Two skulls are laid next to each other with the third skull sitting on the top of the other two. The fourth skull is laying down at the back of the other three skull heads and is partially visible and is painted with darker colours much similar to the background causing it to fade in, whereas the three forward facing forward are painted with lighter vivid colours.



Modern impressionism
Nancy Friese, ‘Walk to the Sea’, (2012)




The walk to the sea by Nancy Friese is an artwork consisting of very vivid, bright colourful colours and light brushworks giving off a very bright sunny day and good mood setting. The scene is set outdoors in a field leading to the sea as the title of the artwork substantiates this, that it is a walk heading out to the wonderful vast sea (artsy.net, 2018).



Reference list







B, Gersh-Nesic, 2017. Art History Basics: Impressionism. Thoughtco.



S, Lee, 2013. A new way to market Impressionism.



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About Nancy Friese, BIOGRAPHY. EXHIBITION HISTORY American, b. 1941, based in Providence, Rhode Island and North Dakota

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