postimpressionism

/ ˌpəʊstɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a movement in painting in France at the end of the 19th century, begun by Cézanne and exemplified by Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Matisse, which rejected the naturalism and momentary effects of impressionism but adapted its use of pure colour to paint subjects with greater subjective emotion

Derived Forms

• ˌpostimˌpressionˈistic, adjective
• ˌpostimˈpressionist, nounadjective

Example Sentences

I can say with 100 percent confidence that no one in the education department of the National Gallery would ever tell someone new to the experience of art, “It looks like you don’t know squat about postimpressionism so don’t show your face here again until you’ve leveled up.”

From Washington Post

Like a long-lost Shakespearean manuscript or a forgotten Beatles tape, this mislaid mural by the British painter Duncan Grant has lovers of Postimpressionism in paroxysms of delight.

From Newsweek

Just as postimpressionism extended and stylized those lovely Impressionist paintings and just as postmodernism did the same cheeky thing with Modern art and architecture, “PostGlamism” suggests a playful, self-conscious expansion.

From Seattle Times

Just as postimpressionism extended and stylized those lovely Impressionist paintings and just as postmodernism did the same cheeky thing with Modern art and architecture, “PostGlamism” suggests a playful, self-conscious expansion.

From Seattle Times

Her use of it reaches its peak of tact and skill in the galleries for impressionism and postimpressionism at the top of the museum, fitted into the dead space between facade and vault.

From Time Magazine Archive