Analysing Visual Experience Post Impressionism was NOT a style of Art, it is a collective term used to describe those artists who came after the Impressionist group and were influenced by it. Two artists who extended the impressionist analysis of the visual experience of fleeting effects of light were Georges Seurat and Paul Cezanne. Georges Seurat developed a very “labour intensive” method of painting in small dots of pure colour, allowing the colours to mix in the eye of the viewer. His paintings took a long time to complete and have a stillness about them that is very unlike Impressionism. Paul Cezanne sought to “make something solid out of Impressionism”. He emphasized the three dimensional forms he saw in his subjects. Braque and Picasso, before embarking on their Cubist style worked in a style based on Cezanne’s paintings.
Georges Seurat The Seine at Le Grande Jatte 1888 Analysing Colour - Pointillisme
Georges Seurat The Models
Georges Seurat Young Woman Powdering Herself 1890
Paul Signac The Green Sail, Venice. 1904
Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire 1900 Analysing Form and Space - Cezanne
Paul Cezanne, Turning Road at Montgeroult 1899
Paul Cezanne, Bathers
Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard 1899 (see Picasso’s portrait of the same man, done in 1910)
Georges Braque, Houses at L’Estaque 1908
Georges Braque, Grand Nu 1908
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard 1910
Expressing Emotion - from van Gogh and Gauguin to Matisse and Picasso Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum September 1888
Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field Under Threatening Skies 1890
Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait 1889
Paul Gauguin Self-portrait with Palette c. 1894
Paul Gauguin Nevermore 1897
Edvard Munch The Dance of Life
Henri Matisse Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) 1905
Pablo Picasso. Self-Portrait