Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement which developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content means Post-Impressionism encompasses Les Nabis, Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, the Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement's principal artists were

thumb|upright|Detail from Georges Seurat|Seurat's [[Parade de cirque, 1889, showing the contrasting dots of paint which define Pointillism]]

Neo-Impressionism is a term coined by French art critic Félix Fénéon in 1886 to describe an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Seurat's most renowned masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, marked the beginning of this movement when it first made its appearance at an exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants (Salon des Indépendants) in Paris. Around this time, the peak of France's modern era emerged and many painters were in search of new methods. Followers of Neo-Impressionism, in particular, were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and

artist collective

thumb|Paul Gauguin, [[The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune)1889, oil on canvasAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York]] Cloisonnism is a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours. The term was coined by critic Édouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888. Artists Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Paul Gauguin, Paul Sérusier, and others started painting in this style in the late 19th century. The name evokes the technique of cloisonné, where wires (cloisons or "compartments") are soldered to the body of the piece, f

thumb|The Talisman, by Paul Sérusier, one of the principal works of the Synthetist schoolSynthetism is a term used by Post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work stylistically from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism. The term is derived from the French verb synthétiser (to synthesize or to combine so as to form a new, complex product).

art movement

thumb|200px|Charles Blanc’s color wheel, which was influential in Divisionist theory

art collection in Zurich, Switzerland

late-impressionist or neo-impressionist style in painting

group of British Post-Impressionist artists founded in 1911 and active until 1913

art movement part of Art Nouveau in Glasgow, Scotland

painting by Paul Cézanne