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Post-Impressionism (Terms (Color: to harmonize, unify, set forth a visual…
Post-Impressionism
Terms
Color: to harmonize, unify, set forth a visual path, produce rhythm, create emphasis
Lines: Horizontal lines = allude to response, Vertical lines = allude to strength and power, Diagonal lines = allude to dynamic movement, Implied lines can lead your eyes into and through the composition
Post-Impressionism - Reacted against the naturalists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artists, a concern which led to the development of expressionism
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Impasto - The process or technique of laying on paint or pigment thickly so that it stands out from the surface.
Elements
Despite the various individualized styles, most Post-Impressionists focused on abstract form and pattern in the application of paint to the surface of the canvas
Structure, order and the optical effects of color dominated the aesthetic vision of Post-Impressionists. Rather than merely represent their surroundings, they relied on the interrelations of colour and shape to describe the world around them.
Symbolic and highly personal meanings were important to Post-Impressionists. Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to thir own memories and emotions.
Critics grouped the various styles within Post-Impressionism into two general, opposing stylistic trends - on one side was structured, or GEOMETRIC STYLE that was the precursor to Cubism, while on the other side was the experience, or non-geometric art that led to ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM.
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Starry Night (1889)
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Followed a strict principal of structure and composition in which the forms are distributed across the surface of the canvas in an exact order to create balance and tension amidst the swirling torsion of the cypress trees and the night sky.
The emphasis on interior, emotional life is clear in his swirling, tumultuous depiction of the sky - a radical departure from his previous, more naturalistic landscapes
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Painted from memory, and not out in the landscape.
It seems that van Gogh is contrasting life and death with luminous stars and a gloomy, peaceful village. The main light sources are the bright stars and a crescent moon
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In the left foreground is a curvy cypress tree which is typically associated with mourning. Painted in the same way as the sky with fluid lines which enhances the flow of the Starry Night painting well as its easiness on the eye
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