Mary’s Landscape Art Info

The Post-Impressionists were very influential to the first art of the 20^th century – Fauvism and Expressionism. Three of the most influential of the Post-Impressionists were Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne.

Gauguin’s clashing color patches and flattening of space, van Gogh’s expressive use of color and line and Cezanne’s method of reducing nature into its geometrical components (cylinder, cone and cube) appealed to both groups. All three artists expressed their own feelings on canvas instead of painting traditional historical and religious art for public spaces.

In many ways, the Fauves and Expressionists picked up where the Post Impressionists left off. They believed that they should express their personal visions in art rather than cater to public taste – and in the process, with their abstract expressionism, they set the tone for modern art.