What does Post-Impressionism mean?

Question

In regards to Vincent Van Gogh'h Painting "Cypress Trees".

Answer 1

Hey Cool Beans,

Post-Impressionism is a term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1914, to describe the development of European art since Monet. John Rewald, one of the first professional art historians to focus on the birth of early modern art, limited the scope to the years between 1886 and 1892 in his pioneering publication on Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin (1956): Rewald considered it to continue his History of Impressionism (1946), and pointed out that a "subsequent volume dedicated to the second half of the post-impressionist period"[1] - Post-Impressionism: From Gauguin to Matisse - was to follow, extending the period covered to other artistic movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries — to artistic movements based on or derived from Impressionism, at all.

Answer 2

Post impressionism is a term that was chosen because the artists of the movement did not want to be labelled as anything. Ex. realism, impressionism, fauvism..... so they purposely chose the most generic term possible a movement that started AFTER
imprssionism > post impressionism

Answer 3

Post means after; later, from the latin postpartum (hello!). Post Impressionism is what happened immediately after the Impressionist movement in Europe.

Answer 4

post-impressionist painters employed similar techniques of the impressionists, however, they expanded on the impressionist use of color by allowing greater saturation of color and by infusing a slightly more expressive/subjective application of color rather than adhering to the specific effects of light seen as color.

Answer 5

it means
before hand.

Answer 6

pre- hand