Characteristics of Post-Impressionist Art

Post-impressionist artistic characteristics: Impressionist movement can be regarded as the peak of naturalism tendency in19th century and the starting point of modern art..

Post-press artistic features:

Impressionist painting focuses on external painting, which weakens the role of themes and expands interest to themes that were previously considered difficult to deal with.

Impressionist painting aims to reproduce the instantaneous relationship between light and color of natural objects, which basically belongs to a painting style. In this sense, impressionism is the development of baroque style, the extension of realistic visual experiment, and the peak of the development of "reproducible" traditional painting since the Renaissance. The pre-impressionist masters mainly include Monet, Degas and Renoir.

The main influence of post-impression:

Impressionism was inspired by the optical theory at that time and was quite scientific. The development of new impressionism has brought the application of optical principles to the extreme.

From the point of view that art is the product of emotion, they are biased towards art, and from the most authentic point of view, post-impressionism is really art, just like the rebellion of impressionism tradition, post-impressionism has cast personal feelings and thoughts, and there has been an unprecedented revolution.

The main features of post-impression:

Color:

Post-impressionist masters tend to apply all kinds of colors to the extreme, and they have a deep grasp of the contrast and integration between colors. Walking at night, there is starlight when you look up, and a dim light illuminates the terrace of a cafe. For this romantic scene, Van Gogh played the role of color to the maximum extent.

Pen skills:

The painting techniques of post-impressionist masters also show rich diversity. The decorative work The Yellow Christ fully shows Gauguin's unique painting skills. He basically uses plane painting to make the picture look like a mural. The background of the picture is drawn in various shades, and the edge lines of the characters are also directly shown, so the whole picture has a simple and lively sense of pattern.

Contrary to Gauguin's painting technique, Van Gogh's thick painting method. There are thick brushstrokes, curved lines and spiral sky in Starry Moon Night. Van Gogh used short lines and continuous strokes to make the picture feel balanced and dizzy.