Analysing Visual Experience• Post Impressionism was NOT a style of Art, it is a

collective term used to describe those artists who came after the Impressionist group and were influenced by it. Two artists who extended the impressionist analysis of the visual experience of fleeting effects of light were Georges Seurat and Paul Cezanne.

• Georges Seurat developed a very “labour intensive” method of painting in small dots of pure colour, allowing the colours to mix in the eye of the viewer. His paintings took a long time to complete and have a stillness about them that is very unlike Impressionism.

• Paul Cezanne sought to “make something solid out of Impressionism”. He emphasized the three dimensional forms he saw in his subjects.

• Braque and Picasso, before embarking on their Cubist style worked in a style based on Cezanne’s paintings.

Georges Seurat The Seine at Le Grande Jatte 1888

Analysing Colour - Pointillisme

Georges Seurat The Models 1887-88

Georges Seurat Young Woman Powdering Herself 1890

Paul Signac The Green Sail, Venice. 1904

Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire 1900

Analysing Form and Space - Cezanne

Paul Cezanne, Turning Road at Montgeroult

1899

Paul Cezanne, Bathers 1900-1906

Paul Cezanne, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

1899(see Picasso’s portrait of the same man, done in

1910)

Georges Braque, Houses at L’Estaque

1908

Georges Braque, Grand Nu 1908

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

1910

Expressing Emotion -from van Gogh and Gauguin to Matisse

and Picasso

Vincent van GoghCafe Terrace on the Place

du ForumSeptember 1888

Vincent van Gogh Wheat Field Under Threatening Skies 1890

Vincent van GoghSelf-Portrait 1889

Paul GauguinSelf-portrait with Palette

c. 1894

Paul Gauguin Nevermore 1897

Edvard Munch The Dance of Life 1899-1900

Henri MatisseGreen Stripe (Madame Matisse)

1905

Pablo Picasso. Self-Portrait. 1907.