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Post-Im·pres·sion·ism (post·im·pres·sion·ism)
![](/images/syllable_hide.gif) Post-Impressionism (postimpressionism)
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a late-nineteenth-century development in French painting, arising out of Impressionism, in which artists further rejected naturalism to study perceptual subtleties or the expressive dynamics in a subject, often through strong color and bold form.
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Post-Impressionistic (adj.), Post-Impressionist (n.) |
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