Postimpressionist (Noun)
Meaning
An artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Paul Cézanne was a prominent postimpressionist who laid the groundwork for the transition from 19th-century art to the early 20th century.
- The postimpressionist movement, led by artists like Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, emphasized distortion and exaggeration of forms for emotional effect.
- A postimpressionist painter, Georges Seurat developed the technique of pointillism, which involved applying small dots of color in patterns to form an image.
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a postimpressionist painter and printmaker who was known for his vivid depictions of Parisian nightlife.
- As a postimpressionist, Émile Bernard rejected the Impressionist emphasis on capturing the fleeting moments of modern life and instead focused on expressing his own emotions and ideas.