Webster's 1913 Dictionary
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
POST-IMPRESSIONISM Post `-im *pres "sion *ism, n. (Painting )
Defn: In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of Cézanne, Matisse, etc. ; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post- impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.
New American Oxford Dictionary
post-Impressionism
post-Im pres sion ism (also Post-Impressionism ) ▶noun the work or style of a varied group of late-19th -century and early-20th -century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted against the naturalism of the Impressionists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern that led to the development of expressionism. DERIVATIVES post-Im pres sion ist noun & adjective, post-Im pres sion is tic adjective
Oxford Dictionary
post-Impressionism
post-Impres ¦sion ¦ism |pəʊstɪmˈprɛʃ (ə )nɪz (ə )m | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the work or style of a varied group of late 19th -century and early 20th -century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted against the naturalism of the Impressionists to explore colour, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern which led to the development of expressionism. DERIVATIVES post-Impressionist noun & adjective, post-Impressionistic adjective
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