Monday Morning Museum: Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism – France from the 1880s to 1900

"Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. Post-Impressionists extended Impressionism while rejecting its limitations: they continued using vivid colours, often thick application of paint, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary colour." - Wikipedia.org

In addition to Henri Rousseau (see art example below), other Post-Impressionists are Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Vincent Willem van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Struggle Between Tiger and Bull, circa 1908-1909 by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

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Monday Morning Museum: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1886 by Louis Anquetin

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa – Thursday 24 November 1864 Albi, Tarn, France to Monday 9 September 1901 Château Malromé, France

French Post-Impressionist Painter and Printmaker

At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas Espagnol), 1899

“The grand master of urban entertainments, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec made many paintings and drawings on the circus theme in the late 1880s and 1890s, just as his popularity as a commercial artist soared. Fin-de-siècle Paris hosted an assortment of professional circuses, and Lautrec frequented them all. He was personally drawn to circus performers-those colorful equestrians, animal trainers, clowns and acrobats on society's "fringes." It was while undergoing treatment for alcoholism at a sanitarium on the outskirts of Paris in 1899 that Lautrec produced an ambitious group of crayon/chalk drawings of circus figures. These imaginative sketches were drawn entirely from memory, without recourse to preliminary studies. The Lehman horse and rider perform the "pas espagnol", the ambling gait formalized by the Spanish Riding School of Vienna. It was thanks to these circus drawings that Lautrec earned his release from the sanitarium-their impressive handling convinced doctors of his improving health. As Lautrec left the clinic, he is said to have remarked, "I've bought my release with my drawings."” – Metropolitan Museum of Art

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