Neo Impressionism

Leaving the Port of Saint-Tropez is one of Post-Impressionist Paul Signac’s signature works in the pointillist style of colored dots, based on a new scientific color theory. This painting depicts the port of Saint Tropez. This place was visited by Paul Signac during his voyage around the Mediterranean sea. Signac popularised this city with other […]

Peasant Woman Standing Indoors is an 1885 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Peasant Woman Standing Indoors Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh paints in 1885 a peasant woman standing indoors with heavy brushstrokes that are thick and lend a weighty kind of significance to the picture. The woman is dressed in

Portrait of Armand Roulin is an 1889 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is in the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Analysis of Portrait of Armand Roulin Vincent Van Gogh painted portraits of the Roulin family in Arles between 1888 and 1889, and this Portrait of Armand Roulin specifically in 1888. This

Young Girl With Fan is a 1902 painting in the Post-Impressionist style by the leading French artist Paul Gauguin. This work is located in the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Analysis of Young Girl with a Fan Young Girl with Fan was painted two years before his 1903 death and during his residence on the Marquesas

In this 1891 painting September Evening, artist Maurice Denis seems to have equal regard for the forms of the actual world and abstraction. For instance, the female figures are recognizable as such but their faces are obscured, and they seem to be more part of a decorative aesthetic scheme rather than portraits or psychological studies.

French artist Maurice Denis painted Portrait of Marthe, his wife, in 1893, the year of their marriage. Her features are delicately and accurately drawn and reveal a certain shyness. In contrast with the accuracy of the portrayal of his wife, Denis offers a highly stylized and almost eerily beautiful background illuminated by moonlight, with simplified

French Neo-Impressionist Paul Gauguin painted Contes barbares (Primitive Tales) in 1902 a year before his death. It is ironically titled, the ‘primitives’ that sit in their pacific lotus position and languidly and peacefully look out to us are contrasted with Gauguin’s depiction of his artist friend Meyer de Haan who seems to represent western culture

Riders on the Beach is a 1902 Primitive Neo-Impressionist painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. Analysis of Riders on the Beach Riders on the Beach is based in Paul Gauguin’s beloved Tahiti, a place whose ‘primitive’ lifestyle he saw as an antidote to western pessimism. Stylistically, the 1902 picture seems to operate at the intersection

Te aa no areois is an 1892 painting by French Neo-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. Te aa no areois Analysis Gauguin’s Te aa no areois, which means ‘the seed of the Areois’, who are the historical local people of Tahiti, relates to the foundational myth of the race which says that the sun god mated with

Scout Attacked by a Tiger is a 1904 painting by French Post Impressionist artist Henri Rousseau. Scout Attacked by a Tiger Analysis Scout Attacked by a Tiger depicts in a forbidding dense jungle, a tiger seizing upon the scout in Henri Rousseau’s so-called ‘Naive’ style. The perspective is not rational in this 1904 work –

The Evening is an early 1913 work by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, painted before his total abstraction period. Kandinsky would go on to become one of the pioneers of abstract art. This picture was painted before his development of total abstraction but the fields of colour used here and a clear concern with the properties

Tadeusz Makowski was a Polish painter who moved to France in 1908 where he painted The Pipe Smokers in 1931. He was influenced by the Cubism developed by Braque and Picasso and this is in evidence in the current painting of four men sitting round a table. The figures are blocky, squat and square with

The Smoker is an 1888 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of van Gogh’s The Smoker In his particular Post-Impressionist style, Vincent van Gogh paints The Smother – a mustachioed peasant smoking his pipe in 1888. The subject rather sadly looks out at us, showing deep humanity; as if listening to a

Memory of the Garden at Etten is an 1888 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is located in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Analysis of Memory of the Garden at Etten The memory of the Garden at Etten (Ladies of Arles) was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888 as

The Stagecoach to Tarascon is an 1888 painting by Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The Stagecoach to Tarascon Analysis The painting is based on a 19th-century novel in which the stagecoach remembers its day on the route from Tarascon to Nimes. This 1888 painting shows the coach unoccupied but perhaps about to be loaded with

Portrait of the Art Dealer Alexander Reid is an 1887 portrait painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh, painted in the Pointillist style. This work is in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Portrait of the Art Dealer Alexander Reid Analysis Alexander Reid was an art dealer and personal friend of both

The Equatorial Jungle is a 1909 painting by French Post Impressionist artist Henri Rousseau. It is located in the National Gallery in Washington DC in the United States of America. Analysis of Rousseau’s The Equatorial Jungle French painter Henri Rousseau painted The Equatorial Jungle in 1909, depicting a faraway jungle scene in the primitive style

Boy in a Red Waistcoat is in keeping with Paul Cézanne’s flair for Post-Impressionist experimentation with shapes, volume, and angles. Aside from the red of the center, all the elements for the later development of Cubism are here, painted between 1888 and 1890, well before the movement started. Paul Cézanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat

Tropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla is a 1910 painting by French Post Impressionist artist Henri Rousseau. It is in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the United States. Tropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla Analysis Tropical Landscape: American Indian Struggling with a Gorilla is a typical dreamlike landscape here

Paul Signac was a prominent member of Post-Impressionism and Two Milliners in the Rue du Caire marks a point before his later experiments in pointillism or dot-painting. His figures and objects here are self-contained and more solid than both Impressionism and pointillism. It was painted in 1886 in Paris and depicts two female workers making