This summary delves into Post-Impressionism, highlighting artists’ use of color, emotion, and personal expression. It covers techniques like pointillism and focuses on how artists like Van Gogh and Gauguin conveyed spirituality and emotion through exaggerated forms
BUST IMRDTCINNISM
BACKGROUND
iuji ii / iijjiiliji
·
late , 9th century IPLANI CAN'CNIIN
emphasised the artists personal
GEGIRGE S ERLAI Island life religion
·
afternoon on studied peasant
response to subject Sunday the +
Grande Jatte Vision After the Sermon
· focused on emotion spiritual
or - of
> La
meaning a subject might convey ~ unusual
arrangement of
figures
of unnatural colours and
strong use
·
>
figures stiff and flat with contours
exaggeration or
slightdistortion of forms .
-
Spontaneous use of color and light
>
pointiligm-small touches of pure
colour dots that blend from a far .
TIINGEIN I WIN GO G
moodiness
#paintings convey a sense of
sensitivity and >
hoped to discover the noble
and reveal tortured mental state of the artist
- focus on rural life IPANI CHININE Savage ,
the ideal pure people
who lived close to the earth.
-> Night Cafe :
> colours choosen
arbitrality
+ divided canvases into
many planes she painted natives in a
type
s not what he sees but what he feels (madness) +
bright colours and a confused of paradisal climate in
perspective limited atmospheres
<
colours such as the red walls are pushed into sense of
sense of
and
hyper-coloured
inconsistency of
and the depth.
the foreground one
this unbalance the works a
+
give Bathers
converging perspective point creat an Large
unnatural
sense of tension and movement
an atmosphere of instability of madness
blocky form of bathers
of the trees
reflects mental state
angularity
>
conform to the
shades of brown and blue
green
Starry Night
<
> The
,
-
town interchangably to unify composition
night sky from a hilltop overlooking
~
>
swirling stars do minate scene
dramatic choppy brushstrokes convey
competing cypress trees symbolise eternity immediency
~ the works of God and nature are
Still life with onlo ns
and the world of man exists
everlasting
merely as a shadow
did not create
-
symbolic equivalents
-
between elements
-
gave paintings spiritual charge through technique subject and colour
(i e Wheatfeild and Crows (
,
+ instead communicated the
intensity of
personal sensation
.
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