post-imˈpressionist
Freq. with capital initials.
[post- B. 1 b.]
An artist whose work exhibits one or more of the facets of post-impressionism; also transf. and attrib. or as adj. Hence post-impressioˈnistic a., characteristic of the post-impressionists.
| 1910 Poster in Lett. R. Fry (1972) I. Pl. 47 Grafton Gallery. Manet and the Post-Impressionists. 1910 C. Holmes Notes on Post-Impressionists 10 In the first Post-Impressionist painters we have a reaction from the materialism which limited the original Impressionists to the rendering of natural effects of light and colour with the greatest attainable scientific truth. 1911 Athenæum 28 Jan. 104/3 Post-Impressionist Sculpture. 1913 A. E. Housman Let. 8 Mar. (1971) 129 An exhibition of post-impressionist undergraduate art, which is calculated to frighten the Germans. 1913 Punch 16 July 70/1 They grumble at the ladies' skirts, The Post-Impressionistic settings. 1914 H. Holley (title) Creation: Post-Impressionist poems. 1922 C. Bell Since Cézanne 81, I can't think why you don't like it: its Post-Impressionist isn't it? 1928 [see Cubism]. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 22 The post-impressionist harmonic experiments, the austerities and asperities of Stravinsky and Bartók. 1945 D. MacCarthy Memories (1953) 181 ‘What was the exhibition to be called?’.. At last Roger [Fry], losing patience, said: ‘Oh, let's just call them post-impressionists; at any rate, they come after the impressionists.’ 1957 Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music iii. 70 In each sequence décor is derived from the style of one or other of the post-Impressionist painters. 1974 Impressionism (R. Acad.) 53/1 Increasingly affected by Post-Impressionists 1909+, with rest of Camden Town Group. 1978 Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 701/2 Mrs. Potter Palmer had been buying Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings with great discernment almost a century ago. |