Art critics first used the term \"post-impressionistic\" in 1911 to loosely describe the work of a few artists whose paintings reflect Impressionistic principles but were created after the movement had lost favor in the late seventeenth century (around 1885). Significant artists whose works have bee...

Towards the end of the nineteenth-century changes in the temperament of the social structure, and economic character of Europe caused artists to abandon previously held art-making conventions and instead seek to interpret the world in new and revolutionary means. \'More of an attitude than a specifi...