Post impressionism

Post impressionism

In 1880's, a group of young painters found different artistic techniques to express emotions and just showing and focusing on topics of deeper symbolism. So their work was concerned with the beauty sense of simplified colours and as also being abstract.
Roger Fry who was a critic and an artist, called this "Post Impressionism" a term he used in his seminal exhibition 'Manet and the Post Impressionists'(The met museum. 2017).

This work was done in the 19th century by different artists namely:
-Paul Cézanne
-Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
-Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
-Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) among others (Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.  2001)

Example of such paintings

Paul Gauguin. The Siesta 1892-1894(John Malyon. 2015)

Above is the a painting of Paul Gauguin called 'The Siesta' and the medium used was oil and canvas. In this image, Paul made many changes with this painting for example the woman who sat in the foreground of the image had bright red skirt instead of a navy blue one; the basket also was originally a dog; and he placed the woman who was at the far left closer to the left edge of the porch (The metmuseum. 2017).

So since Paul was spiritual and loved primitive paintings, he the basket portrayed the dog in the modern society and a change 

Contemporary artwork

Contemporary artwork (Jingxian Shi.2014)

The painting above is a contemporary one because the artist here used different variation of colours to bring in the sense of light to dark. He/she also used some bits of the paint brush to form the tonal range in the painting and making it to look realistic

Sources consulted.

The metmuseum. 2017. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art. Online. Available at
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/poim/hd_poim.htm
Accessed on 23/02/17

The metmuseum. 2017. The Siesta . Online. Available at
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436449
Accessed on 23/02/17

Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2001. Post impressionism.Online. Available at
https://global.britannica.com/art/Post-Impressionism
Accessed on 23/02/17

John Malyon. 2015. Paul Gauguin(French Post Impressionist Painter,1848-1903)
Online. Available at
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gauguin_paul.html
Accessed on 23/02/17

Jingxian Shi. Art History Time Line. 2014. Online. Available at
http://jingxianshi-arthistory-timeline.weebly.com/
Accessed on 23/02/17