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Post-Im⋅pres⋅sion⋅ism
[pohst-im-presh-uh-niz-uh
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–noun
| 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. |
Also, post-im⋅pres⋅sion⋅ism.
Related forms:
Post-Im⋅pres⋅sion⋅ist, adjective, noun
Post-Im⋅pres⋅sion⋅is⋅tic, adjective
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Post-impressionism
Post`-im*pres"sion*ism\, n. (Painting) In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo-impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of C['e]zanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post-impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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post-impressionism
1910, from post- + impressionism (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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