T he art of Gauguin and van Gogh, however, reflected a more emotional bias and involved highly charged colors and a rhythmical patterning of lines across the surface of a picture. In an extreme effort to shake off the past, Gauguin sought what he viewed as the universal truths implicit in the so-called primitive art of the South Seas. Van Gogh also searched for elemental truth, but he did so in the inner world of the psyche. Gauguin's work led directly to Fauvism, and van Gogh's to expressionism. A lthough in the strict sense it cannot be called a movement, the postimpressionist period did provide a vital and creative link between the impressionist revolution and the founding of all the subsequent major art movements of the 20th century.
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