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Post Impressionism
Post-Impressionism (n)/ Post-Impressionist (adj)
the French artistic movement that followed Impressionism. Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,Henri Rousseau, James Ensor, Paul Cézanne, & Vincent van Gogh pushed beyond the Impressionist emphasis on the appearance of nature, stressing instead qualities such as emotional expression and the formal structure of underlying objects. The Post-Impressionists introduced a variety of bold new styles, including innovative uses of color and brushwork that sometimes bordered on abstraction.