By breaking the strict limits of the academic art, Impressionism opened the gates to modern art, but certain groups of artists wanted to go further.
The term Post-Impressionism refers to some artists that didn´t form a unified movement but who shared certain characteristics developed later by different avant-garde movements.
- They derived from Impressionism (real life themes, thick application of paint)
- They were no longer interested in the effects of light.
- They wanted to express emotions or some intelectual approach to the conception of forms.
- They did an arbitrary use of color.
- More defined outlines.
- They emphasized geometric forms.
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SUZANNE VALADON (1865-1938) |
Self-portrait 1893 | Nudes 1919 |
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