post·im·pres·sion·ism (p st  m-pr sh  -nzm)n. A school of painting in France in the late 19th century that rejected the objective naturalism of impressionism and used form and color in more personally expressive ways. post im·pression·ist adj. & n.post im·pression·istic adj. |
postimpressionism [ˌpəʊstɪmˈprɛʃəˌnɪzəm]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a movement in painting in France at the end of the 19th century, begun by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and exemplified by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90), and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), which rejected the naturalism and momentary effects of impressionism but adapted its use of pure colour to paint subjects with greater subjective emotion
postimpressionist n & adj
postimpressionistic adj
Translations
postimpressionism
n → Nachimpressionismus m
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