Art The Post Impressionists
In this essay I will be concentrating on the four major Post-Impressionism artists – G. ... Although he was profoundly influenced by the Impressionists use of colour and brushwork, he later rejected the soft, irregular brushstrokes of impressionism in favor of pointillism, a technique he developed whereby solid forms are constructed by applying small, close-packed dots of unmixed color to a white background like thousands of pixels on electronic displays which your eye mixes together to form the colours or like a cloth with different coloured stitching. ... Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French Post - Impressionist painter, whose lush color, flat two-dimensional forms, and subject matter helped form the basis of modern art. ... Gauguins bold experiments in coloring led directly to the 20th-century fauvist style in modern art. ... Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. ... By the age of 27 he had been in turn a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological student, and an evangelist among the miners at Wasmes in Belgium.