The ARTnews Guide to Post-Impressionism

Using post as a prefix for a chapter in art history can strike the ear as suggesting a period that, if not exactly a letdown from the one immediately preceding it, was too eclectic to earn its own specific title. Such was the case with Post-Impressionism, the panoply of styles that built upon the accomplishments of Impressionism.Encompassing the years between 1880 and 1900, Post-Impressionism introduced a diverse range of formal and thematic innovations that drove 19th-century art to new levels