Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Emotional, bright, and realistic

Multiple Choice

True or False: Post-Impressionistic work aimed to add a more personal and emotional touch to art.

• True

• False

Characteristics of Post-Impressionism

Post-impressionists kept some of the techniques that the Impressionist artists, such as Monet and Renoir, but rejected some of their ideas about why art should be created.

Open Ended

What techniques did the Post-Impressionists keep?

Continued Techniques

• Distinct Brushwork

• Bright Colors

• Real-life Subjects

Georges Seurat

• Born in 1859

• Took a more scientific approach to art by studying color theory

• Did not want to merely capture colors observed in nature

Pointillism: A trick of the mind. Many colored dots that, when viewed from afar, look like blended colors.

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Georges Seurat Pointillism by Star Arts

Paul Cezanne

An artist born in 1839, who started his artistic work by emulating the Romantic period artists. However, he decided to incoporate the Impressionists' use of color and brush strokes.

Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire

• Created dozens of oil paintings based on this mountain

• Instead of painting the mountain exactly how he saw it, he tried to make it interesting for the viewers.

• He did this by focusing on composition and color in the art work.

Open Ended

What if Cézanne had chosen to paint a highly realistic image of the mountain? How might a realistic painting affect you differently from Cézanne's painting?