Many of the major artists of Post Impressionism were also involved at the end of the Impressionist movement. C\u00e9zanne, Seurat, van Gogh, and Gauguin were the four artists we focused on for this lecture. For all post-impressionists, color is the driving force of their painting, but both C\u00e9zanne and Seurat were concerned with form within color, while van Gogh and Gauguin made more personally expressive works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
C\u00e9zanne’s landscapes tend to depict an area he knew very well, but he moves away from capturing fleeting moments and into creating a sense of permanence. Rather than staying true to life, his paintings set out to be paintings, and the composition and brushwork contribute to this effect. Even vast landscapes appear flat and simplified–this simplification would continue to define post-impressionism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seurat painted the famous A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, <\/em>and did so through painstaking methods. Form in this painting is necessarily precise, as each piece of color is intentionally minuscule–the overall effect is that the colors mix (albeit imperfectly) in the viewer’s eye. Over the course of many preliminary studies and drawings, Seurat composed the scene to convey a sense of timelessness and permanence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Van Gogh, rather than form, painted scenes of personal expression. Early in his career, he was greatly influenced by impressionism, but over time he developed the post-impressionistic style he is known for today. Warm and cool colors are often juxtaposed in his paintings in order to create a flat sensation, even around other illusions of depth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of the major artists of Post Impressionism were also involved at the end of the Impressionist movement. C\u00e9zanne, Seurat, van Gogh, and Gauguin were the four artists we focused on for this lecture. For all post-impressionists, color is the driving force of their painting, but both C\u00e9zanne and Seurat were concerned with form within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2530,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}