Post-impressionism And Virginia Woolf

Post-impressionism, a term coined by British art critic Roger Fry, broke free of the Impressionism at the end of the 1880s. A group of young painters sought independent artistic styles for expressing emotions rather than simply optical impressions, concentrating on themes of deeper symbolism. Through the use of audacious colors and definitive forms, their art was characterized by a renewed aesthetic sense as well as abstract tendencies. Among the new generation of artists of Impressionism, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), and Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) went in different directions, but they shared their opposition to the traditional academic view of art, and they were called the representatives of Post-impressionism.Although they differed in individual styles, all of these artists broke away from the aesthetic concept of impressionism and especially from the impressionism's concentration on changing lights and colors of visual reality. The post-impressionists did not simply reject the impressionist heritage; they accepted the revolutionary impact of impressionism and went on to explore new approaches to express their inner world and innermost feelings. They emphasized art's non-naturalistic representation of the reality. The post-impressionism was firstly a revolutionary moment in French art history but it did provide a vital and creative link between the impressionism revolution and the founding of all the subsequent major art movements of the 20^th century. The post-impressionism profoundly influenced the modern art history.Throughout history, painting art and literature have developed in parallel with each other. The post-impressionist movement was no exception. Virginia Woolf, one of the most important English novelists, critics, and essayists in 20^th century, adopted the ideas of the post-impressionism to create descriptive impressions by words, not necessarily by paintings.