Neo Impressionism

Entrance to the Public Park in Arles is an 1888 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Entrance to the Public Park in Arles In 1888’s Entrance to the Public Park in Arles by Vincent Van Gogh, the brushwork in the trees particularly resemble those of Cezanne’s from a year before. They […]

French artist Paul Cézanne spent a lot of time in Provence, the setting of his 1887 painting Mont Sainte-Victoire with a Large Pine. The picture is part of an artistically revolutionary oeuvre that shows signs of development beyond Impressionism and looks forward to Cubism with individual elements standing out independently. However, the fracturing of the

Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbour is an 1888 view of the port in Normandy and is painted in Georges Seurat’s signature style of pointillism. This technique entailed the application of dots of differing colours side-by-side and resulted in a more energised and vibrant painting. It seems in this picture that the painted scene and the

Russian painter Boris Kustodiev’s Bathing here shows a family holiday spent swimming in the fine summer weather. The bright colours used enhance the mood of carefree gaiety. The swimmer making her way back to the cabin that is surmounted by the royal Russian flag could relate the desire of a return to the tsarist regime

Wheatfield at Auvers with White House is an 1890 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Wheatfield at Auvers with White House Wheatfield at Auvers with White House is a simple painting of a field of wheat with a country house in the background painted by Vincent Van Gogh. The color and composition

The Ham is an 1889 still life picture by French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin and is about as dull as a painting like this can be. Painted in the year of the Exposition Universelle in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was unveiled as a symbol of modernity, Gauguin’s The Ham is distinctly unfashionable. The prevalent subject

The Road Menders is an 1889 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of The Road Menders The Road Menders is a street scene showing figures on the left going about their day and on the right a number of workers attending to construction works. Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh painted this work

The Tragedy is a 1903 painting by Pablo Picasso from his Post-Impressionist Blue Period, which shows three figures, a man, woman, and child huddled together on a beach. Their downcast looks speak of the tragic but it isn’t clear if they are subject to it or mourning it. The entire piece is made up of

The Football Players, a 1908 oil painting by French artist Henri Rousseau shows four young men playing what appears to be rugby in a field cut from a forest. It is located in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Painted when Henri Rousseau was 64 years old, two years before the artist’s

Spanish Painter Pablo Picasso’s 1905 Maternite (Or Mother and Child) is a very simple painting. Tender and oblivious to the viewer, and clad in a loving soft pink, the mother suckles her child in a pose that reminds us of the Madonna and Child. Pablo Picasso’s Maternite (Mother and Child) is in a private collection.

The Brooding Woman is an 1891 painting in the Post-Impressionist style by the leading French artist Paul Gauguin. The Brooding Woman Analysis He painted this work, ‘Te Faaturuma’ in Tahitian, during his first period living in Tahiti in 1891. The composition is sparse, focusing attention the central figure of a woman deep in thought, perhaps

Portrait of the Artist with the Idol is an 1893 painting by the leading French artist Paul Gauguin in the Post-Impressionist style. It is located in the McNay Art Museum in Antonio, Texas in the United States. Analysis of Portrait of the Artist with the Idol This self-portrait of Paul Gauguin foregrounds his likeness in

The Lady in 1905’s Lady with a Fan by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is in the act of waving goodbye. Her coolness of expression matches well with the prominent blue, while her angular features look forward to Picasso’s development of Cubism decades later. Pablo Picasso’s Lady with a Fan is in the National Gallery of

Muddy Alligators by American artist John Singer Sargent was painted in 1917 towards the end of his life at age 61. Sargent serves up in this watercolor a more precise Realist style. The alligators are drawn expertly and the blanching light effects on the foreground bank and water relate a piercing heat. John Singer Sargent’s

Snowdrop and the Seven Little Men is an 1897 painting by English painter John D. Batten depicting Snowdrop from the Brothers Grimm book Snow White. Batten, and illustrator for books himself painted a number of works depicting literary characters. Snow White was first published in 1812 some 85 years prior to this painting being completed.

Le Gourmet is a 1901 painting by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso which already shows a concern with blue before his famous Blue Period. Picasso depicts a young child greedily eating from a serving bowl. This and the fact the child is standing rather than sitting at the table suggest a lack of patience. Pablo Picasso’s

The Drinkers is an 1890 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of van Gogh’s The Drinkers. The Drinkers by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh presents the silent act of drinking itself – perhaps an allusion to the ultimate isolation of alcoholism. The greenish hues, sketchy background, and swelling greyness of the clouds

La famille Soler is a 1903 large-scale undertaking by the Spaniard Pablo Picasso during his early ‘blue period’. He balances precise likenesses of Soler and his young family in a forested area that is merely suggested with the almost musical variations of blue. ‘Soler family’ in English, the work was commissioned by Benet Soler, a

Portrait of the Superintendent Trabuc in the Hospital Saint Paul is an 1889 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Portrait of the Superintendent Trabuc in the Hospital Saint Paul Portrait of the Superintendent Trabuc in the Hospital Saint Paul was painted by Vincent Van Gogh during his stay at Saint Paul

At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance, painted by the Post-Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1890, we see a typical contemporary scene in a dancehall. The juxtaposition of the energy and abandon of the dancer and the self-absorption of the woman in the foreground creates an interesting contrast that points out the divide between interior thought