Post-Impressionism: Meaning and Definition of

Post-Im•pres•sion•ism

Pronunciation: (pōst"im-presh'u-niz"um), [key]
— n.
  1. a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin.
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