Transcript Post-Impressionism - Western Faculty of Education

Post-Impressionism
• Moving from Impressionism
• Represent more emotion and expression
through colour
• Did not have a common goal
– Became dissatisfied with the Impressionist style
and pursued a variety of directions
Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1879-1882
3-D shapes
Cezanne, Mont Ste. Victoire, 1897-1900
Cezanne, Large Bathers, 1898-1906
Man or Female?
Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886
Do you see a difference in movement?
Seurat, Chahut,
1889-1890
Seurat, Model in
Profile, 1886
Van Gogh, Wheat Field and Cypress Trees, 1889
Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Van Gogh, Self Portraits
Gauguin, Vision After the Sermon: Jacob
Wrestling with the Angel, 1888
Gauguin, The Meal, 1891
Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we?
Where are we going? 1897
Christ-like young woman
Old woman
Young girl
Gauguin’s Tahitian Paintings
Symbolism
• Had diverse styles
• Withdrew from society
• Rejection of the modern
world and materialism
• In favour of irrational
states of mind
• Preoccupation with evil
and darkness
Toulouse Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge,
1893-1895
Lautrec
Munch, The
Scream, 1893
Munch, Spring, 1888
Death
Life
Redon, Smiling
Spider, 1881
Redon, The
Eye Like a
Strange
Balloon that
Mounts
Towards
Infinity, 1882
Moreau, The
Apparition, 1876