Impressionism & Post Impressionism

IMPRESSION

During the 19th century, a art movement started happening. Artist during this time created a new visuality, a new way of seeing the world. Started to see about the nature of fugitive light falling on surfaces. Artist started to convey the passage of time, changes in weather, and other shifts in the atmosphere in their canvases.  And these type of artists were happened to called  "Impressionists" and their paintings became known as "Impressionism." Impressionism is about modernity: its faster pace and various improvements in the quality of daily life. It's about the little middle class activites. Such as shopping, vacationing, strolling, waiting, or even walking your dog. Impressionism is about life lived in bursts of brief encounters in the city. It's about faster speeds, quickly moving clouds, the nature of fugitive light, daytime/ night time settings. And impressionist George Seurat shows a perfect example by this painting called A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If we take a look here we can see really the nature of fugitive light just by the shadows he's painted. As well as we can see a  real day-to-day activity in our everyday lives. We can see a patch of beautiful vibrant colors and scattered sunlight oozing from this painting. We really see a change of art and how artist such as impressionist started to break from the normal traditional european paintings. By re-analyzing tone and color, capturing the ever-changing effects of light on the canvas.

POST IMPRESSIONISM 

During the late 19th century, impressionism started to pave it's way for post-impressionism. Now post impressionist painters started to explore different directions and approaches to painting without concern about the appearance of their subjects. It started to pave it's way for the development of modern art!  Compared to impressionist painters,  post-impressionist painters were not concerned with the objective appearance of their subject matter or how it looked at a different time of the day. Post impressionist painters started to largely concentrate on the personal emotions and concepts of the individual artist. It was a slower process and more of an involved methodical process. Post impressionism started to use geometric forms to portray its subjects while impressionism used small thin brushstrokes that gave the painting softer edges. This painting is " Portrait of Doctor Gatchet" painted by one of the most brilliant artist Vincent Van Gogh. If we look at his eyes they're drooped with sadness. As well as his skin tone appears to be kinda abnormal and shallow. We as well see lines of colors swimming around and through the doctor which was also a unique a technique Van Gogh had.