Post-ImpressionismFour painters who took Impressionist colour and put structure back into it.Art & DesignA retrospective label, coined by Roger Fry in London in 1910.The argumentImpressionism had dissolved structureColour can carry feeling, not only lightForm should be constructed, not dissolvedRoughly 1886 to 1905CézanneNature as cylinder, sphere and coneShifting viewpoints in one canvasColour used to model the formDirectly ancestral to CubismVan Gogh, GauguinVan Gogh: colour as feeling, loaded strokeGauguin: flat areas inside dark outlineBoth looked outside European conventionGauguin's Tahiti work is also colonialSeuratDivisionism: separate touches of colourBuilt on Chevreul's colour theoryMixing left to the eye, not the paletteLa Grande Jatte, 1884 to 1886Post-Impressionism is a label applied afterwards to painters who neverformed a group and disagreed with each other.Post-Impressionismlearnposters.com
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16 entries in 4 groups.

A retrospective label, coined by Roger Fry in London in 1910.

Post-Impressionism is a label applied afterwards to painters who never formed a group and disagreed with each other.

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What’s on the Post-Impressionism poster?
16 entries in 4 groups. A retrospective label, coined by Roger Fry in London in 1910. The argument: Impressionism had dissolved structure, Colour can carry feeling, not on…; Cézanne: Nature as cylinder, sphere and cone, Shifting viewpoints in one canvas, Colo…; Van Gogh, Gauguin: Van Gogh: colour as feeling, loaded stroke, Gauguin: flat areas in…; Seurat: Divisionism: separate touches of colour, Built on Chevreul's colour theory, M…. Post-Impressionism is a label applied afterwards to painters who never formed a group and disagreed with each other.
Who is the Post-Impressionism poster for?
Post-Impressionism belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning art history can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Post-Impressionism poster?
Use it to trace the route from observed light to twentieth-century abstraction. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Post-Impressionism belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Post-Impressionism?
Abstract Expressionism, Arts & Crafts and Bauhaus sit alongside Post-Impressionism in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Abstract ExpressionismArts & CraftsBauhaus
Is the Post-Impressionism poster free to download and print?
Yes. Post-Impressionism downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Post-Impressionism poster print at?
Post-Impressionism is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Post-Impressionism loses nothing.Printing guide

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