Personal Styles of Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh

Personal Styles of Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh

Introduction

The paper discusses about the personal styles of Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh in a holistic context. The paper aims to explain their concepts and ideas in a comprehensive manner. The paper then concludes with a comparison of the work of these four people and the inspiration it is for the current generation and the generations to come.

Discussion

The Post-Impressionism is a movement itself and the definition is used conventionally to indicate the many experiences in painting, created and developed in France after the Impressionism. The term was coined by art critic Roger Fry in the painting at an event held in London in 1910, which were works by Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh (Everdell, 1998).

Concepts and Philosophy of Post-Impressionism

The Post-Impressionists like the Impressionists believed in the need to respect “the truth” and being “true to nature,” but the resemblance ended there with their predecessors. For the Impressionists the freedom of the painter had addressed the possibility of representing, measuring light and color, the impression of a moment, mind the Post-Impressionists wanted to regain the safety of the outline, the certainty and freedom of color and time (Bowness et al., 1997).

For this, the new generation of painters, he decided we want to represent nature in an increasingly subjective, and concluded that the visible could be realistically represented in a whole new way, for example with the Seurat pointillism, or that the real could be passed by the symbols (Gauguin) or even that it was completely excluded, creating a painting with the sole purpose of sending messages to the public, made ??with the ' Abstract (1905).

The timing of the Post-Impressionism

Already in the eighties of the nineteenth century Impressionist movement, seems to have exhausted its charge with a positive and has come to its latest manifestations. Many members of each group are intent on developing their own expressive language, seems to take shape over the idea of ??the preferential relationship of figurative art with nature, to direct it towards more intellectual content. The term Post-Impressionism rather than define a way of painting defines a particular chronological period, spanning the last two decades of 1800 and early 1900, including the Fauve s between the Post-Impressionists (Rewald, 1998).

The names of Post-Impressionism

Artists who have linked their names to the Post-Impressionist trend were: ...