... varied surfaces. They transformed conventional styles by using sketchy brushwork and bright colours. Artists who are considered to be the key artists involved in the Post impressionism movement are Cezanne, Gaugin and Van Gogh. The ways in which Post impressionism artists reflected some of the features of impressionism varied greatly. For eg. Seurat concentrated on a more scientific analysis of colour, Gaugin explored a symbolic use of colour and Van Gogh was very expressive in his work. Cezanne once said that he wished ' to make of impressionism something solid and enduring' He was also interested in pictorial structure. The artist Paul Cezanne was associated with the movement of post impressionism. Paul Cezanne was born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, he died in 1906. Cezanne originally studied law and worked in the family bank. He then moved to Paris to become an artist, after his friend Emile Zola introduced him to ...

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