Post-Impressionism

Not a single style but a name, coined by the critic Roger Fry in 1910, for the painters who came after Impressionism and went beyond it in different directions. Paul Cézanne rebuilt nature from solid blocks of colour; Vincent van Gogh used thick, swirling strokes and blazing colour to express feeling; Paul Gauguin flattened colour into bold areas outlined in dark, in search of something primitive and symbolic; Toulouse-Lautrec drew the nightlife of Montmartre. What they share is bright colour taken from Impressionism, combined with firmer structure, outline or emotion. Each opened a road into modern art: Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism.

How to tell it apart: Impressionism records light as it is; Post-Impressionism keeps the colour but adds strong outlines, deliberate structure, symbolic colour or expressive brushwork.

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Artists

Vincent van Gogh · Pablo Picasso · Paul Gauguin · Henri Matisse · Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · Piet Mondrian · Paul Cézanne · Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Georges Seurat · Henri Rousseau · Suzanne Valadon · Pyotr Konchalovsky · Tom Thomson · Walter Sickert · Odilon Redon · Joaquín Sorolla · Augustus John · Maurice Utrillo · Roger Fry · Gwen John · Édouard Vuillard · Leonid Pasternak · William Orpen · Ilya Mashkov · Maurice Prendergast · Moïse Kisling · Jacques-Émile Blanche · Aristarkh Lentulov · Vlaho Bukovac · Henri Le Sidaner

Best-known works

“The Starry Night” — Vincent van Gogh, 1889
“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” — Georges Seurat, 1884
“Sunflowers” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” — Paul Gauguin, 1897
“The Card Players” — Paul Cézanne, 1893
“The Potato Eaters” — Vincent van Gogh, 1885
“Café Terrace at Night” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“Wheatfield with Crows” — Vincent van Gogh, 1890
“At the Moulin Rouge” — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892
“Bedroom in Arles” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“Irises” — Vincent van Gogh, 1889
“Starry Night Over the Rhone” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“Mont Sainte-Victoire” — Paul Cézanne, 1902
“Portrait paintings of Dr. Gachet” — Vincent van Gogh, 1890
“Garçon à la pipe” — Pablo Picasso, 1905
“Wheat Field with Cypresses” — Vincent van Gogh, 1889
“The Red Vineyard” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“The Yellow House” — Vincent van Gogh, 1888
“Tahitian Women on the Beach” — Paul Gauguin, 1890
“The Basket of Apples” — Paul Cézanne, 1893
“Jack the Ripper's Bedroom” — Walter Sickert, 1908
“Manaò tupapaú” — Paul Gauguin, 1892
“The Old Guitarist” — Pablo Picasso, 1903
“Casting the Net” — Suzanne Valadon, 1914
“Almond Blossom” — Vincent van Gogh, 1890
“Sewing the sail” — Joaquín Sorolla, 1896
“At Eternity's Gate” — Vincent van Gogh, 1890
“The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28 June 1919” — William Orpen, 1919
“Mardi Gras” — Paul Cézanne, 1888
“Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette” — Vincent van Gogh, 1884