impressionism vs post impressionism

What the the online session is trying to convey about impressionism is in 1874 the french were
opposing the academic doctrines and romantics ideals and literally took their canvases outside
and paint “what the eye sees,not what it knows”. During that time impressionists relied on the present
and highlighted lighting the most and by doing that they mixed little color as possible.
As shown on
Two sisters (on the terrace) by Pierre-Auguste renoir
In the painting you can easily notice the amount of detail the background(nature) has and little strokes
put into this. The  warm colors on the background and cool colors the sisters are wearing are not mixed
with each other thus presenting the impressionism.


The second part of the online session video was post impressionism and it is completely the opposite
of impressionism. It is a style that lets one personalize an object however they want, warp it into
emotions. The way they do it using bold/saturated flat colors and using unnatural lighting.
As shown here: self portrait ‘les miserables’ by paul gauguin


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