Origin and Goal
The country where Post-Impressionism emerged
France
The two key characteristics of Post-Impressionism
Geometric Forms and Symbolic Subject Matter
The three techniques used by the Post-Impressionists
Texture, Pointillism, and Synthetism
Painter of Sunflowers, Self-Portrait, and Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
A painting by a troubled painter who conveyed his depression through dark colors
The Starry Night
The movement directly before Post-Impressionism
Impressionism
Geometric shapes used to give a sense of structure to their paintings
Geometric Forms
Small dots of color applied to a painting
Pointillism
Painter of A Sunday Afternoon in the Island of the La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat
A painting by Paul Cezanne which depicts a mountain that he painted many times throughout his life
Mont Saint-Victoire
The limitation of Impressionism that the Post-Impressionists rejected
an accurate depiction of color and light
An emphasis on the underlying meaning rather than literal representation
Symbolic Subject Matter
Pointillism
Painter of Apples and Oranges and Mont Saint-Victoire
Paul Cezanne
Painting that depicts Tahitian women by Paul Gauguin
Two Women
The year that Post-Impressionism began
1886
Characteristic used in Mont Saint-Victoire
Geometric Forms
A combination of the artist's feeling with the two-dimensional flat patterns, colors, and forms in the painting
Synthetism
Painter of Two Women and Vision After the Sermon
Paul Gauguin
A painting that beautifully combines color and line by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin Rouge
The goal of Post-Impressionism
to depict the artist's experiences and emotions rather than accurately capturing the world
Characteristic used in Vision After the Sermon
Symbolic Subject Matter
Technique used in A Starry Night
Synthetism
The five key artists of Post-Impressionism
Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
The 9 Post-Impressionist paintings we learned about
Apples and Oranges, Mont-Saint Victoire, A Sunday Afternoon in the Island of the La Grande Jatte, Self-Portrait, Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Vision After the Sermon, Two Women, At the Moulin Rouge