What Is Post-Impressionism?

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Carlos Navarro. I'm an artist and educator in Miami, Florida. In 1910 a guy named Roger Fry used the word post-impressionist. Actually, impressionist had already been around for quite some time, Monet, Manet, two of the great impressionists of France had been painting for quite some time. The post-impressionist however were different. They're people like Van Gogh, the Dutchman who painted the very famous painting "Starry Night." Guys like Gogan, Paul Gogan who went to Tahiti and painted the beautiful Tahitian women. Guys like Seurat, George Seurat, pretty much we know he's the father of Pointilism, you know, people like that, Pissarro who is also a very different impressionist. So, if you talk about what post-impression is, am is, you're basically talking about people that took impressionism to a different level, obviously post means after. What comes after impressionism? It could be anything even the Fauves, Matisse could be an impressionist movement, a post-impressionist movement because basically that's what it was. Seurat, for example the painting "Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte" which shows which he painted over and over again, which shows people sitting by the lake in the afternoon with its incredible details of millions and millions of dot that over, you know, the course of time seem to sort of blend in and create these shapes. That's impressionism taken to a different level and that's basically what post-impressionism is."