What is Post-Impressionism you may ask?
Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionism and its concern for the objective depiction of light and color. It started appearing around 1886, the year of the last Impressionist group show in Paris, and came to an end around 1905, with the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism expanded some of the approaches of Impressionism such as the use of vivid colors, using a thick application of paint termed impasto, and frequently painting from life. Artists started to reject Impressionism's limitations by inclining towards an emphasis on geometric or distorted forms and opting for more unnatural colors, which they attributed strong emotional meaning to. Post-Impressionists also tended much more towards symbolism and abstraction. The term Post-Impressionism was first used by the art critic Roger Fry in 1906 as a bland term to describe a variety of works departing from Impressionism produced in the last decades of the century.
