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Vincent van Gogh: The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy)
The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy), oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Post-Impressionism
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- 1890 - 1920
Post-Impressionism, in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature ...(100 of 707 words)