Post-Impressionism

✍ Scribed by Nathalia Brodskaia

• Publisher: Parkstone Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Series: Art of Century Collection
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic studies of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcribed the chemist’s theory of colours into tiny points that created an entire image. With his heavy strokes, Van Gogh illustrated the midday sun, while Cézanne renounced perspective. Rich in its variety and in the singularity of its artists, Post-Impressionism was a passage taken by all the well-known figures of 20th century painting, and which is here presented, for the great pleasure of the reader, by Nathalia Brodskaïa.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 5
The Technical and Scientific Revolution......Page 7
Post-Impressionism and its Contributions......Page 21
MAJOR ARTISTS......Page 23
PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)......Page 25
NEO-IMPRESSIONISM......Page 61
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)......Page 79
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)......Page 117
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)......Page 159
THE NABIS......Page 179
NOTES......Page 194
INDEX......Page 195