Epochs · France
Post-Impressionism
c. 1886 – 1905
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Not a single style but a generation that took Impressionism's freedoms somewhere new. Cézanne rebuilt nature from planes of colour, Seurat systematised it into dots, Van Gogh charged it with emotion, and Gauguin looked for meaning in symbol and flat colour. Modern art grows from all four.
Hallmarks
- Structure and geometry beneath appearances
- Colour used for emotion or symbol
- Pointillism and colour theory
- Bold outlines and flat areas
Artists here
- Paul Cézanne · 1839 – 1906
- Henri Rousseau · 1844 – 1910
- Paul Gauguin · 1848 – 1903
- Vincent van Gogh · 1853 – 1890
- Georges Seurat · 1859 – 1891
