Post-Impressionism (Movements in Modern Art)
Hard on the heels of the Impressionists came artists with a different agenda.  By refining and codifying, or dismantling and reassembling, the procedures of Impressionism, artists such as Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh rewrote the rules for representational painting at the turn of the twentieth century.  The arbitrary color, exaggerated forms, and abstraction of their works marked a new distance between artist and nature and prepared the public for the freedoms of the next generation of innovators.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.