Post-impressionism

The post-impressionism is a whole of the artistic currents which, during the period going roughly of 1885 with 1915, diverging from the Impressionnisme or being opposed to him (neo-impressionism, Synthétisme, symbolism, nabis…).

The post-impressionism term is an extremely fuzzy name, applied mainly to Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, but often used to describe other artists progressists who followed the great decade of impressionism (1870 - 1880), like Matisse, Bonnard and Decroix.

One can differentiate two kinds of paintings within the post impressionism.

the influence of Seurat

The table entitled the Island of the bowl represents the life of Sunday at the time. The painters belonging to this movement make daily life their subject principal.

the " couple" Gauguin/Van Gogh

Van Gogh arrives at Paris in 1886 and discovers impressionist paintings then. It realizes that did not correspond to the idea that it had some. It chooses its technique: much more carried, more lyric and more expressionnist that those of the others. Its influence is determining on the evolution of painting. One will see appearing then painting German expressionnist. (The styles of painting result from the preceding styles).

Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh are brought to live together three weeks with Arles. At this time, they are involved in debt, tended and contracted. Gauguin thus sells some of its fabrics with Théo, the brother of Vincent, in exchange of a money little. The two painters have techniques which oppose them. While Vincent asserts himself to go to paint on the reason (with fabrics and rest) whatever the climatic conditions, Paul, painted to him of memory in the workshop.

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