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 of reflexivity. Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Henri-Edmond Cross, Maurice Denis, James Ensor, Paul Gaugin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Vincent van Gogh, and Édouard Vuillard are just some of the names from the era whose work would reverberate throughout the century to come, setting the stage for Abstraction, Expressionism, and Surrealism.
