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c. 1880–1910

Post-Impressionism

Artists developed distinct answers to what could come after Impressionism: structure, symbolism, color and expression.

Key artists

1853–1890

Vincent van Gogh

A Post-Impressionist whose compressed career produced intensely colored landscapes, portraits and still lifes built from energetic brushwork.

1839–1906

Paul Cézanne

A painter whose structured landscapes and still lifes became a crucial bridge between nineteenth-century painting and modernism.

Selected works

The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
1889 · Post-Impressionism

The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh
Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cézanne
c. 1902–1906 · Post-Impressionism

Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne