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Product Description: What is Post-Impressionism? Why did the Post-Impressionists avoid realistic colors? Did Post-Impressionism have an impact on later art styles? 'Post-Impressionism' answers all these questions. It also discusses how Post-Impressionism developed, examines the distinctive styles of individual Post-Impressionist artists, and looks at how the Post-Impressionists used color, shape, and composition to create paintings with a powerful visual and emotional impact...read more

Product Description: The Art Institute of Chicago boasts one of the world's finest collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. This innovatively designed book highlights eight iconic masterpieces, including Ballet at the Paris Opera by Degas, Two Sisters (On the Terrace) by Renoir, Paris Street; Rainy Day by Caillebotte, Stacks of Wheat by Monet, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884 by Seurat, The Bedroom by van Gogh, At the Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec and Why Are You Angry? by Gauguin...read more

Product Description: For a so-called art movement, impressionist painters were a very dissimilar group. Monet and Renoir liked people-watching and hanging out with the jet set at La Brenouillière. Degas got his kicks from ballet dancers, working models, and racehorses...read more

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Discusses the works of such artists as Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, explains how they differed from the impressionists, and assesses their place in modern art

Shows more than ninety rarely seen works by impressionists, including paintings by Manet, Degas, Monet, Sisley, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Cassatt, van Gogh, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec

Focuses on the artists whose ideas and works established a new approach to painting in the late nineteenth century