What is it?
Post-Impressionism is a rather vague term applied to the movement which
developed in reaction against both Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism and
had as its chief aim either a return to a more formal conception of art or a new
stress on the importance of the subject. The most important figures covered
by the term are van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne. It was given currency in
England by the exhibition arranged by Roger Fry in the winter of 1910—11,
called 'Manet and the Post-Impressionists', which caused much heart-burning
in London art circles and led to the formation of the London Group.
Le post-impressionnisme has now come into use in French as the equivalent
term.
Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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