Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Toulouse-Lautrec

Post-Impressionism is a very short period in European art at the very end of the 19th century, a time of bold searches and unexpected discoveries in painting, which soon led to the emergence of avant-garde art at the beginning of the 20th century. The heroes of this vibrant era were talented lone artists who opened new horizons for visual art. Together and individually, they defined the vector of development for all of 20th-century art. Post-Impressionists were doomed to the fate of unrecognized exiles and hermits, as they created bold innovative paintings that were far from the usual demands of the public. They were misunderstood, they died in poverty and oblivion, and later became idols for millions of their admirers. The unpredictable and colorful art of Post-Impressionism left many mysteries and questions that this book will help answer. By reading it, you will learn: • why Paul Cézanne did not like to paint portraits; • where Paul Gauguin found his lost paradise; • which country Vincent van Gogh dreamed of going to; • why women in Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings almost always have red hair; • why Post-Impressionists loved Brittany and Provence; • how Georges Seurat and Paul Signac created their paintings using dots; • which avant-garde artists of the new century were influenced by Post-Impressionists.