Neo Impressionism

Woman in a Striped Dress is an 1895 painting by Edouard Vuillard, an artist of the Nabi group in France that rejected Impressionism’s ethos of the attempted description of the natural world. His rich variations of restricted reds and the depiction of the flowers show his interest in Oriental art. Edouard Vuillard’s Woman in a […]

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), a giant of twentieth-century art, painted The Actor in 1904 at the age of twenty-three at the beginning of his Rose Period. The work shows a concern with a modern kind of Mannerism where the limbs are extended and gesture exaggerated. The suits the subject as we watch the actor

Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries is an 1888 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is in the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. Analysis of Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries Vincent Van Gogh painted Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries in 1888 during his stay in Arles in the south of France. The heavy and

Here Belgian Artist Théo van Rysselberghe paints a coastal scene in the pointillist style in 1892, just six years after French painters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique. The scene is very likely that of the French Riviera which van Rysselberghe visited each year during the 1890s. Théo van Rysselberghe’s Coastal Scene is

The Old Station at Eindhoven is an 1885 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of The Old Station at Eindhoven The people in Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh’s outdoor paintings are typically anonymous as can be seen in The Old Station at Eindhoven, and most of his attention is invested in

Lane with Poplars is an 1885 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Germany. Analysis of Lane with Poplars Vincent van Gogh painted Lane with Poplars in 1885 and he depicts a scene near Nuenen in the Netherlands where he lived from 1883 to

Woman with White Shawl is an 1882 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Woman with White Shawl This Vincent Van Gogh painting of a woman in a white shawl in a woodland avoids any kind of narrative context and represents the scene using a Post-Impressionistic distortion or rather distillation of forms down

The Bather (1885) shows Paul Cézanne at his adventurous best. He paints a boy treading carefully with hands on hips in a shallow stream. The pose of the figure is decidedly awkward and is not conferred with grace. The expression on the boy’s face is thoughtful and perhaps troubled. The traditional depiction of the dignity

Paul Cézanne’s painting Marion And Valabregue Setting Out For Motif is generally aligned with that of Post-Impressionism but also is seen as looking forward to later twentieth-century developments in Modern Art. As Picasso was once to exclaim: “Cézanne is the father of us all”. The two protagonists’ gazes in 1866’s Marion And Valabregue Setting Out

The Bonaventure Pine is an 1893 pointillist oil on canvas painting by French Neo-Impressionist artist Paul Signac. The Bonaventure Pine Analysis Created by the founder of the art style pointillism Paul Signac at the height of his experimental powers, The Bonaventure Pine is in the realm of divisionism or pointillism. Under the influence of fellow

Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist, made Old Woman (Woman with Gloves) from 1901 an accurate and painstaking record of a character in the face of the woman which is wrinkled into a smile. Yet the woman is not painted in a naturalistic fashion when we consider Picasso’s use of color which deprives the face of

Martinique Landscape is an 1887 painting in the Post-Impressionist style by the leading French artist Paul Gauguin. Paul Gauguin spent five months on the French Caribbean island of Martinique (now part of the Lesser Antilles) in 1887 when he was 37 years old. The Nei-Impressionist artist painted around twelve paintings during his stay here. Not

The Night Cafe, Arles is an 1888 Post-Impressionist painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. Gauguin joined his friend Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, a small town in the southwest of France in late 1888. It was during this time – at the end of 1888 to be specific, that he painted The Night Cafe, Arles.

A Young Woman Powdering Herself is an 1890 Pointillist painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat. Analysis of A Young Woman Powdering Herself A Young Woman Powdering Herself is a neo-impressionist (sometimes referred to as post-impressionist) painting of a woman at her toilette powdering her face by Georges Seurat. It is believed that it was

Peach Blossom in the Crau is an 1889 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Peach Blossom in the Crau Vincent Van Gogh painted Peach Blossom in the Crau (sometimes also called ‘Peach Trees in Blossom’ or ‘Perzikbomen in bloei’ in Dutch) during March and April of 1889. La Crau is a

The Customs House is a 1900 Post-Impressionist painting by French artist Henri Rousseau. Analysis of Rousseau’s The Customs Post French painter Henri Rousseau, famous for having no formal training and for being ignored by the art world early in his career, is thought to have painted The Customs Post around 1900 or so, late in