The document discusses Neo-Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. For Neo-Impressionism, it describes artists like Georges Seurat and Paul Signac and Seurat's famous painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". For Post-Impressionism, it discusses artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and their notable works, with a focus on van Gogh's "Starry Night". It also provides background details on the techniques and time periods of each movement.

1. Javier Alberca Ramírez
22/04/2012

2.  Neo-Impressionism
 Artists in Neo-Impressionism
 Description of a work of art: A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte
 Post-Impressionism
 Artists in Post-Impressionism
 Description of a work of art: Starry Night
 Bibliography

3.  It was a term developed in 1886 by Félix Fénéon, an
art critic. This term describes the art style of the end
of the 19th century. It was founded by Georges Seurat
and Paul Signac. They were the first to show new
works with this style.
Félix Fénéon 

4.  They evolved in the use of colours with respect to
Impressionism. They used a lot of dots of pure
colours. This is a technique called “pointillism”. With
the use of these coloured dots, looking at the painting
from a little distance, your eyes mix the colours,
achieving a lot of colours and contrasts.
 The best moment of this movement was between 1886
and 1891, but it didn't end with Seurat´s death. It
continued for around a decade more.

5.  Georges Seurat made important paintings, such as Bathers at
Asnières, The Circus, The Eiffel Tower and A Sunday Afternoon on
the Island of La Grande Jatte. He was the most important Neo-
Impressionist painter.
The Circus 
 The
Eiffel Tower
 Georges
Seurat
 Bathers at
Asnières

6.  Paul Signac, he was the other man featured in this period. He was
also one of the first artists to exhibit paintings with features of this
style. His most important paintings are The Papal Palace at
Avignon, Grand Canal in Venice.
Paul Signac 
The Papal
Palace at
Avignon

Grand Canal The Port
of Saint-
in Venice 
Tropez


7.  There were some other Neo-impressionism artists such as Charles
Angrand and his painting The Western Railway at its Exit from
Paris. Maximilien Luce, with his painting Montmartre, de la Rue
Cortot, vue vers Saint-Denis. Or Anna Boch, with her painting
Falaise – Côte de Bretagne.
The Western
Railway at its
Exit from
Paris


 Charles Anna Boch
Angrand
Maximilien Falaise –
Côte de
Luce 
Bretagne 
Montmartre, de la Rue Cortot, vue

vers Saint-Denis

8.  A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La
Grande Jatte.
 Created by Georges-Pierre Seurat between 1884 and
1886.
 Oil on canvas.
 Located in the Art Institute of Chicago.

9.  It’s considered to be one of the best examples of Neo-Impressionism for
the use of pointillism. The use of this technique helps the painting to
have brighter colours and contrasts in the parts with light and shadows.
Seurat paid much attention to shapes, colours and contrasts.
 The painting represents people in the Island of La Grande Jatte. Most of
them are relaxed. People's faces are represented without expression.
That's because the colours are in charge of provoking the reactions on
the viewer instead of the people represented.
 As a curiosity, Seurat used a new pigment, yellow zinc, for the zones
with much light, but as time went by this pigment has become brown.

10.  It describes the art and style of the paintings used at the end of the
19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It developed
after Impressionism.
 It was a term invented by Roger Fry, a British critic, after having
seen an exhibition in London in 1910.
 This movement is considered to be an extension of Impressionism.
For that reason the painters continued following its characteristics,
but they included some more features, such as the use of new
colours and they presented the world in a more subjective way.
They tried to give more emotion and expression to their paintings,
using a lot of colours with different kinds of strokes.
The Olive
Trees. Vincent
Van Gogh
 Roger Fry

11.  Paul Gauguin was one of the first artists of this style. Some of his
most important paintings are The Yellow Christ, Where do we come
from? What we are? Where are we going? He used large surfaces
painted with the same colour and he simplified shapes. His use of
the colour was very symbolic.
Paul
The
Gauguin Where do we come
Yellow
 from? What we are?
Christ
Where are we going?



12.  Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec was also an important Post-
Impressionist painter. He painted some works of art such as La
Toilette, La Goulue, Aristide Bruant. He often went to brothels and
cabarets, to represent the life during the night in Paris. He was a
person with a very weak health and he had a lot of problems for
this reason. He had a very varied colour palette.
Henry de La
Tolouse- Goulue
Lautrec 

La
Toilette

Salon at Aristide
the Rue Bruant
des
Moulins



13.  Paul Cézanne anticipated Cubism. Some of his most
important paintings are Card Players, Sainte Victoire
Mountain.
Boy in a red
Paul waistcoat
Cézanne


The Card
Players

Sainte Victoire
Mountain


14.  Vincent Van Gogh was another one of the developers
of Post-Impressionism. He had a very difficult life and
a very special personality. Some of his paintings are
The potato eaters, The Starry Night.
Vincent
Van Gogh The
Potato
 Eaters

Bedroom

in Arlés
The Sower


15.  Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
 Created by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889.
 Oil on Canvas.
 Located in the Museum of Modern Art of New York.

16.  The painting is considered to be Van Gogh´s magnum opus. On it we can see a lot of
strokes that form the painting. With its special use of colour, the painting expresses a
lot of emotions.
 For Van Gogh, the stars of the sky made him dream and he asked himself why the
millions of dots of the sky are not accessible for the people. The representation of the
village, located in the lower part, is partly invented. The cypresses, located in the left
part, are painted with a form that can remind to fire flames. The sky is the part where
most of the “magic” of this painting is located.
 The painting shows the landscape from a window of the sanatorium of Saint-Rémy-
de-Provence in France. He was interned there for six months after cutting his (right)
left ear off near a brothel. After that, on May 1889 he was interned there because he
wanted. He had psychological problems and he knew it.

17.  Books:
Blanco, Cristina; Pérez, Paqui (2011), Social Sciences History. 4º ESO, Campo de Criptana.
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