Post-impressionism: implicit salute towards its predecessors

Abstract

Post-impressionism, as one of the world's most popular schools of art, was focused mostly on its influence on its descendants. However, this paper examines the undiscovered aspect of post-impressionism by giving a perspective on its relations with its predecessors rather than its influence on its successors. It studies the forms and flows of post-impressionist paintings. Comparisons, investigations, and observations were made during the period. It is also reviewed in the thesis about the previous articles on comparisons between post-impressionism and its contemporaries as ukiyo-e paintings. Between post-impressionism and its ensuing schools, such as the art nouveau, these comparisons are made to illustrate the influence. The investigation pointed out that there have always been relationships and similarities between post-impressionism and its predecessors, either implicit or explicit ones. The work could endorse further studies on post-impressionism and break the common sense on post-impressionism that it only had an impact on its posts and was not influenced much by its predecessors.