Late 19th century, Western Europe

Post-Impressionism

A generation of artists who followed Impressionism — rejecting its softness for a harder, more personal language. Vivid color, unreal light, and raw emotional weight, each painter insisting that a painting could carry meaning beyond the things it depicted.

5 walls · 15 pieces

A room with no walls.

Post-Impressionism isn't a single movement. It's the decade or so when several painters — working mostly in isolation — stopped trying to record the world and started trying to speak with it. Paint became structure in Cézanne, symbol in Gauguin, nervous system in Van Gogh, and pure optics in Seurat.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Vincent van Gogh, 1888