Post-Impressionism

or post-im·pres·sion·ism

[ pohst-im-presh-uh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. 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.

Other Words From

• Post-Im·pression·ist adjective noun
• Post-Im·pression·istic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Post-Impressionism¹

1905–10; post- + Impressionism ( def )

Example Sentences

“Yeah, we say post-impressionism, but I think we say post-impressionism more because he lived in a time of post-impressionism. He was influenced by everything from his Japanese time; he did some super-realistic stuff and some post-impressionism.”

From Washington Post

It’s not my favorite De Forest by far, but it’s a useful skeleton key to a mind that drew inspiration from Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Dada and Expressionism as well as history painting and the Aboriginal Dreamtime artists of Australia.

From New York Times

Artists began experimenting with these synthetic pigments, which were sometimes haphazardly prepared and untested for the purposes of longevity but were exceptionally bright — enabling the brilliant palettes of Fauvism, Post-Impressionism and modernism.

From New York Times

You could argue that these modest pots made in obscurity in Mississippi are irrelevant to the masterpieces of French post-impressionism.

From The Guardian

Like Tate before it, MoMA will no longer bandy around terms such as cubism, post-impressionism, abstract expressionism, or conceptualism in its labels.

From The Guardian