Post Impressionism, as the name would suggest, is the art movement that directly followed Impressionism. One artist who led the Post Impressionism movement was the French artist, Paul Cézanne. Much of his early work was pure Impressionism and, although he was introduced to the style and guided by C...

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...

The Art and Life of Vincent van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most distinguished modern artists. His early work depicts humble subjects, peasants mostly, with a gentle hand. Many of his other paintings are mostly room settings, and still lifes of flowers with such intensity that it wo...