French for “in the open air.” In art, it means sketching or painting out of doors, as opposed to in a studio.
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Oil painting by the French artist Paul Cézanne.
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Surname of the Post-Impressionist artist that painted many Still Lives.
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Artistic style founded by Georges Seurat.
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Post-Impressionists valued this over reality.
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Representing a form or figure in art that retains clear ties to the real world.
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Resembling or using the simple rectilinear or curvilinear lines used in geometry.
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A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.
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A style of painting, which began in France in the 1860s, in which the artist tries to represent the effects of light on an object, person, area of countryside, etc.
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French term coined in the late nineteenth century to describe the craze for Japanese art and design in the West.
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The way paint is put on to a surface with a brush. In Post-Impressionism, is usually short and visible.
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A painting or drawing of the land or natural environment.
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A work of art rendered in only one color.
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Faithful adherence to nature; factual or realistic representation.
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A paint in which pigment is suspended in oil, which dries on exposure to air.
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The range of colors used by an artist in making a work of art.
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Adjective that defines the fast brushstrokes used by some Post-Impressionists.
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A style that consists in showing things as they are in life.
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A painting of an arrangement of fruit, flowers, or other assorted objects.
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Adjective to define brushstrokes with a lot of paint like Van Gogh's.
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Quality of not being natural, like the colors used by Post-Impressionists.
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Surname of a Post-Impressionist artist who cut off his ear.
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Paints composed of pigments ground to an extremely fine texture in an aqueous solution of gum Arabic or gum tragacanth.
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Adjective to define an artwork that shows feelings and thoughts.
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Surname of the art critic that first refered to the term "Post-Impressionism".
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Surname of the writer who was a close friend of Cézanne.
