Post-Impressionism (Movements in Modern Art) - Softcover

THOMSON BELINDA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854372548 ISBN 13: 9781854372543

Publisher: TATE, 1998

Synopsis

One of a series introducing major movements in modern art to general readers, students and gallery visitors, this text looks at the Post-Impressionists. Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. Dissatisfied with the essentially short-term effects Impressionism had mastered, they strove in their different ways for an art of a more permanent, structured and expressive kind. By refining and codifying, or dismantling and reassembling, the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh and their associates rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the 20th century. The arbitrary colour, exaggerated forms and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature, and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators. This book focuses on the artists responsible for these influential stylistic changes, and sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts.

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Book Description:

Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda. By refining and codifying, or dismantling and reassembling, the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the twentieth century. The arbitrary color, exaggerated forms, and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators.

About this edition

• Publisher: TATE
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1854372548
• ISBN 13: 9781854372543
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80