Post-Impressionism is a movement in late 19th-century Western painting that both extended Impressionism’s values and rejected its limitations. Artists such as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created their own highly personal style by building on the pure, brilliant colors of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with short brushstrokes of broken color. Dutch painter van Gogh, for example, transformed the short brushstrokes into curving, vibrant lines of color, exaggerated even beyond Impressionist brilliance, that convey his emotionally charged and ecstatic responses to the natural landscape.
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