Who are the most famous Post-Impressionists?
Post-Impressionism describes the styles of a group of French artists who went beyond the pure Impressionism of Claude Monet and his followers, during the late 19th century and early years of the 20th century. They included: Georges Seurat (1859-1891), Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), and Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940). For more details, see: Post-Impressionism. Q. Who were “Les Fauves” and what sort of painting style was Fauvism? The Fauvist art movement (1898-1908) was a short-lived colourist style of painting which coalesced around a number of French artists during the turn of the century. An outgrowth of the French Impressionism movement, famous “Fauves” included Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Andre Derain (1880-1954), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), Georges Braque (1882-1963), Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Albert Marquet (1875-1947) and Georges Rouault (1871-1958). For more details, see: Fauvism. Q. When did
