In this class we discussed the Post-Impressionist movement. The two focuses of the movement were form and personal expression, but both emphasized color. Paul Cézanne, who used the former, painted a series of the same landscape from 1885 to 1887. These landscapes, when compared to Impressionist landscapes were focused more on permanence and less on the fleeting nature of life. Despite being an expansive landscape, the painting appears quite flat due to the paint being applied evenly. The shapes are also simplified and there’s the sense of abstraction and reduction. The painterly style also adds to this effect. In a later landscape, about ten years, of the same area, Cézanne increases the sense of reduction by creating objects into shapes. We then looked at Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the sense of permanence appears again through the rigidity and formality of the figures and setting. Seurat also chose not to blend the colors himself, but rather let the viewer’s eyes blend them. Moving onto van Gogh and Gauguin, who both focused on personal expression. Both artists used color to express emotion.