Tahitian Landscape, Paul Guaguin

"Post Impressionism - The Roots of Modern Art." Post Impressionism. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar.

2014.

Purpose

To gain a basic understanding about the Post-Impressionism Art Movement and to identify Artists who work(ed) in this style.

This style of art was not very formal. This started from a few artists named, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, who rebelled against the limitations of impressionism. These artists developed more personal styles around the mid to late 1800’s catering around the emotional, structural, symbolic and spiritual elements which they believed were missing in impressionism. The art style they had developed shaped modern art for the next eighty years.

From this assignment I learned more on how to create a piece of art like this. It forced me to not focus on little aspects, but what I was drawing as a whole. It is not about detail, and exact colors. This work of art reflects how it was seen by the artist. Whether the artist is sad or happy would depend on the outcome of this type of work.