postimpressionism

British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• postimpressionist noun
• postimpressionistic adjective

Example Sentences

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.

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In fact, the heirs of impressionism deserve a better label than postimpressionism, with its overtone of depreciation.

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The central space is devoted to the century's culminating styles�impressionism and postimpressionism.

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There was no way of judging the academicians by the standards of postimpressionism.

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The 19th Century brought other European influences: detailed German realism, light-filled French impressionism and decorative French postimpressionism.

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