Editing Impressionism (section)

== Post-Impressionism ==
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During the 1880s several artists began to develop different precepts for the use of colour, pattern, form, and line, derived from the Impressionist example: [[Vincent van Gogh]], [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Georges Seurat]], and [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]]. These artists were slightly younger than the Impressionists, and their work is known as post-Impressionism. Post-Impressionist artists reacted against the Impressionists' concern with realistically reproducing the optical sensations of light and colour; they turned instead toward symbolic content and the expression of emotion.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyle-Turner |first=Caroline |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t068996 |title=Post-Impressionism |date=2017-12-12 |publisher=Oxford University Press |series=Oxford Art Online|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t068996 }}</ref>

Post-Impressionism prefigured the characteristics of [[Futurism]] and [[Cubism]], reflecting the change of attitude towards art in European society.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781032699707/post-impressionists-england-barrie-bullen |title=Post-Impressionists in England: The Critical Reception |date=2024-03-08 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-032-69970-7 |editor-last=Bullen |editor-first=Barrie |location=London |doi=10.4324/9781032699707}}</ref> Some of the original Impressionist artists also ventured into this new territory; [[Camille Pissarro]] briefly painted in a [[Pointillism|pointillist]] manner, and even Monet abandoned strict ''plein air'' painting. [[Paul Cézanne]], who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasising pictorial structure, and he is more often called a post-Impressionist. Although these cases illustrate the difficulty of assigning labels, the work of the original Impressionist painters may, by definition, be categorised as Impressionism.

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File:A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, 1884.png|[[Georges Seurat]], ''[[A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]'', 1884–1886, [[The Art Institute of Chicago]]
File:Vincent Van Gogh 0016.jpg|[[Vincent van Gogh]], ''Cypresses'', 1889, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
File:Paul Gauguin 044.jpg|[[Paul Gauguin]], ''The Midday Nap'', 1894, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
File:Card Players-Paul Cezanne.jpg|[[Paul Cézanne]], ''[[The Card Players]]'', 1894–1895, [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris
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