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c. 1880–1910
Post-Impressionism describes the diverse work of artists who built upon Impressionism while moving toward greater emotional, symbolic, or structural expression. Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Gauguin each pointed in different directions toward modern art.
Artists & Works
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh produced over 2,000 works in just a decade of artistic activity. His intensely personal style of swirling brushwork and heightened colour expressed emotional states with raw directness. Largely unrecognised in his lifetime, Van Gogh’s influence on Expressionism and modern painting is incalculable.
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Frances Hodgkins
Frances Hodgkins left New Zealand for Europe and became one of the first artists from the Pacific to gain international recognition, absorbing Post-Impressionist colour and structure before developing her own loose, semi-abstract still lifes. She later taught a generation of British modernists and remains New Zealand’s most celebrated painter abroad.
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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne broke painting down into planes of colour and geometric structure, searching for the underlying order beneath appearances in his obsessive studies of Mont Sainte-Victoire and quiet still lifes. Picasso and Braque both called him the father of modern art, crediting his late work as the direct root of Cubism.
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