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Postimpressionist

Postimpressionist

1 9.9
A painter who used bold colour and new styles after Impressionism in the late 1800s
  • noun
  • /ˌpoʊstɪmˈprɛʃənɪst/
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  • Although Fry was one of the first to break with Johann Joachim Winckelmann's famous celebration of Classical art, and despite his enthusiasm for the Postimpressionist art of his day, he still followed Immanuel Kant in equating artistic beauty with fidelity to nature.
  • Postimpressionist paintings

Examples

  • Many scholars consider Paul Cézanne a pivotal figure in the Postimpressionist movement, known for his innovative approach to perspective.

  • You can pretty much say that, prior to the Postimpressionists, there is no line in Western art?

    Academic text (2013)

  • Vincent van Gogh is often celebrated as one of the most influential Postimpressionist artists of his time.

  • The vibrant colors and emotional depth of his paintings reveal the unique style of Postimpressionist art.

Synonyms

Post-impressionist
vsPostimpressionist
1 8.9

An artist who made paintings with bolder colors and new shapes after Impressionism

has identical meaning but is written without a hyphen

Surface Forms

Postimpressionist singular
Postimpressionists plural

Morphology

Postimpressionist = impressionist (transparent) = post + impression + ist

Meaning is directly derived by adding the productive prefix 'post-' ('after' or 'following') to 'impressionist', so the relation is clear to learners familiar with those parts.

Etymology

Postimpressionist is made of the prefix post- meaning 'after' and Impressionist, from impression meaning 'a quick feeling or image'. So a Postimpressionist is an artist who came after the Impressionists and made work that reacted to or changed their quick, light style.