Post Impressionism

     Impressionism is a style of painting developed in the last third of the 19th century to represent the effect of light on objects through short brush strokes of bright colors in immediate juxtaposition. Impressionism art focused more on what the eyes see rather than what the mind knows, according to the lecture Harmon Intro Impressionism Post Impressionism.Certain impressionism art had something called open form or “cropping the image” which is a form whose exterior is irregular or broken, having a sense of growth, change or unresolved tension; from in a state of becoming or reaching out.  

 This piece of impressionism artwork is called Melody of the Night by Leonid Afremov.

        Post-Impressionist believe in a free interpretation of nature, not to see things but to see through them to a significance in reality deeper than what superficial appearance gave according to the lecture.Post impressionism is a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin. These portraits were made in reaction to what these artists saw as the somewhat formless and aloof quality of Impressionist painting. This is also art created by French artists. These artists were considered “Beings of extraordinary insight, mysterious, visionary and fantastic. Post-impressionist used paint while other artist were using pencil, sketch, painting quickly and with a lot of rhythm.

      This piece of Post-Impressionism art is called Starry Fright by Vincent Van Gogh.

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