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1. The theory or practice of any of several groups of painters, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the naturalistic character of impressionism and neo-impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of Cezanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only

1. In Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style's inherent limitations.
   "The real influence of Paris across the Atlantic came not with Impressionism but with the post-impressionism of Toulouse Lautrec and Cézanne, the Modernism of Picasso and Matisse and the radical experiments of the Surrealists."

Type of: artistic style, idiom

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